1. Joshua 5:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Where was Gibeath-haaraloth?

Joshua 5:3 (ESV)

3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Gibeath-haaraloth literally translates as hill of foreskins. This was probably the colloquial nickname given to a hill next to Gilgal where the circumcisions took place. Gibeath-haaraloth and Gilgal are two different names for the same place (see Joshua 2:9; Joshua 5:2).

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