Passage Research
Joshua 5 — Sermon Preparation
Israel renews the covenant through circumcision and observes Passover at Gilgal; the manna stops, and Joshua encounters a mysterious armed commander. Below is a research summary for Joshua 5, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 15
- verses
- 288 / 125
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Joshua 5 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מוּל | mûwl | H4135 | 8 | cut, curtail |
| יְהוֹשׁוּעַ | Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ | H3091 | 10 | Jehoshua |
| מִצְרַיִם | Mitsrayim | H4714 | 5 | Mitsrajim |
| יָצָא | yâtsâʼ | H3318 | 5 | go, bring |
| מִדְבָּר | midbâr | H4057 | 3 | pasture, desert |
| מָן | mân | H4478 | 2 | whatness, manna |
| חֶרֶב | chereb | H2719 | 3 | drought, cutting |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Joshua 5, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We read not of any appearance of God's glory to Joshua till now. There appeared to him one as a man to be noticed. This Man was the Son of God, the eternal Word. Joshua gave him Divine honours: he received them, which a created angel would not have done, and he is called Jehovah, chap. 6:2. To Abraham he appeared as a traveller; to Joshua as a man of war. Christ will be to his people what their faith needs. Christ had his sword drawn, which encouraged Joshua to carry on the war with vigour. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Joshua 5:13–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Great Sea— Josh 5:1
- Jordan— Josh 5:1
- Gilgal 1— Josh 5:10
- Jericho 1— Josh 5:10
- Canaan— Josh 5:12
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