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Joshua 5:10

Joshua 5:10
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal,.... Not after their circumcision, but before, and where they continued encamped during that, and until the passover had been kept by them; this was…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month - If the ceremony of circumcision was performed on the eleventh day of the month, as many think; and if the sore was at the worst on the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 5:10-12

We may well imagine that the people of Canaan were astonished, and that when they observed the motions of the enemy they could not but think them very strange. When soldiers take the field they are…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Joshua 5:10-12

Celebration of the Passover Cessation of the Manna

10. And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal The camp became permanent, and probably in grateful memorial of the many associations connected…

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