Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

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Numbers 14:22
Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My [miraculous] signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,
Numbers 26:64
But among these there was not a man [left] of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel [for the first time] in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:16
“So it came about when all the men of war had finally died from among the people,
1 Corinthians 10:5
Nevertheless, God was not well-pleased with most of them, for they were scattered along the ground in the wilderness [because their lack of self-control led to disobedience which led to death].
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies were scattered in the desert?