Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 5:4

4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise all the people that came out of Egypt , that were males, even all the men of war died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

This is to be restrained to such as were then above 20 years old, and such as were guilty of that rebellion, Numb. 14. as it is expressed below, v. 6.