1 When all the kings of the Amorites west of the Jordan and of the Canaanites by the sea to the east heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel while they crossed over, their hearts melted, and there was no longer any breath in them because of the children of Israel.
2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the children of Israel a second time.”
3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the children of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins called Gibeath Haaraloth.
4 Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the males who came out of Egypt who were men of fighting age had died in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt.
5 All of the people who had come out were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt were not circumcised.