1. All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan River and all the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea heard that the Lord had dried up the Jordan River so that the Israelites could cross. So they lost heart and had no courage left to face the people of Israel.
2. At that time the Lord spoke to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise the men of Israel.”
3. So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the men of Israel at the Hill of Circumcision.
4. This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the soldiers had died on the way through the desert after they left Egypt.
5. The men who left Egypt had been circumcised. However, the men born later, on the way through the desert, were not circumcised.