Joshua 5:4

Joshua circumcised them because all of the males among the people who came out of Egypt that is, all the warriors had died during their journey through the wilderness following their departure from Egypt.

Numbers 26:64-65

But none of these men among these numbered by Moses and by Aaron the priest (that is, when they numbered the Israelis in the wilderness of Sinai) survived to enter the land,

Deuteronomy 2:16

"And so all the soldiers among the people died.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22

none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness even though they've tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was 38 years. All of that generation, the soldiers in the camp, were destroyed just as the LORD swore they would be.

Hebrews 3:17-19

And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?

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Summary

And 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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Numbers 14:22
none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness even though they've tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice
Numbers 26:64
But none of these men among these numbered by Moses and by Aaron the priest (that is, when they numbered the Israelis in the wilderness of Sinai) survived to enter the land,
Deuteronomy 2:16
"And so all the soldiers among the people died.
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God wasn't pleased with most of those people, and so they were struck down in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he angry for 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned and whose bodies fell dead in the wilderness?

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