Covenant Broken

"Then the Lord commanded Joshua, 'Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again..." (Joshua 5:2-3)

This was a command that Jehovah gave to Joshua. The Israelites were to be circumcised again. As we know, A man can only be circumcised once. Why again?

"Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt-all the men of military age-died in the desert on the way after leaving Egypt. All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the desert during the journey from Egypt had not. The Israelites had moved about in the desert forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land that he had solemnly promised their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey." (Joshua 5:4-6).

Why was circumcision so important?

It was a regulation to keep the Passover.

(Exodus 12:43-50)

If their children were uncircumcised that means they were not keeping the Passover. They broke God's covenant, and because of disobedience to the Law of God, many died, unable to see the Land of Canaan.

Then God said: "Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again." (Joshua 5:2)

Something monumental was about to take place.