4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
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But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. …
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)A vast show, no doubt, the numerous camp of Israel made in the plains of Jericho, where now they had pitched their tents. Who can count the dust of Jacob ? That which had long been the church in the wilderness has now come up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved, and looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners . How terrible she was…
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