Joshua 5:6

“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, etc.] Wanting a few days, the round number is given: not forty two, as the Septuagint version: till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed; all that were above twenty years of age, excepting Joshua and Caleb: because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord; but murmured against him, and against his servants, and particularly against Aaron, being the high priest; and chiefly because of the report of the spies, and their murmurs then, which so incensed the Lord against them, that he threatened them with an entire consumption of their carcasses, and which accordingly was fulfilled, to which the…”

“Of the whole nation those only were already circumcised at the time of the passage of the Jordan who had been under twenty years of age at the time of the complaining and consequent rejection at Kadesh (compare the marginal reference). These would have been circumcised before they left Egypt, and there would still survive of them more than a quarter of a million of thirty-eight years old and upward. The statements of these verses are of a general kind. The “forty years” of Joshua 5:6 is a round number, and the statement in the latter part of Joshua 5:5 cannot be strictly accurate. For there must have been male children born in the wilderness during the first year after the Exodus, and these…”

“The people - The Hebrew word commonly signifies the Gentiles; so he calls them, to note that they were unworthy the name of Israelites. Shew them - That is, not give them so much as a sight of it, which he granted to Moses, much less the possession. Joshua 5:7”

“walked: Num 14:32-34; Deu 1:3, Deu 2:7, Deu 2:14, Deu 8:4; Psa 95:10, Psa 95:11; Jer 2:2 sware that: Num 14:23; Heb 3:11 a land: Exo 3:8, Exo 3:17; Eze 20:6, Eze 20:15; Joe 3:18 Joshua 5:7”