Yosua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Yosua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ⁴  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ⁵ 

Yosua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ⁶  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ⁷  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ⁸  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ⁹ 

Yosua 7:21

7:21 I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, ¹⁰  two hundred silver pieces, ¹¹  and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

Yosua 8:11

8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. ¹²  They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. ¹³ 

Yosua 8:22

8:22 At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. ¹⁴  The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

Yosua 8:24

8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men ¹⁵  of Ai who had chased them toward the desert ¹⁶  (they all fell by the sword), ¹⁷  all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Yosua 8:31

8:31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. ¹⁸  They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace. ¹⁹ 

Yosua 11:21

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ²⁰  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ²¹  Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

Yosua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ²²  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ²³ 

Yosua 14:6

14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. ²⁴ 

Yosua 15:18

15:18 One time Acsah ²⁵  came and charmed her father ²⁶  so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Yosua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country ²⁷  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” ²⁸ 

Yosua 18:13

18:13 It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), ²⁹  and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.

Yosua 19:27

19:27 It turned eastward toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El to the north, as well as the Valley of Emek and Neiel, and extended to Cabul on the north ³⁰ 

Yosua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ³¹  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ³²  and the high priest dies. ³³  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ³⁴ 

Yosua 20:8-9

20:8 Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho ³⁵  they selected ³⁶  Bezer in the desert on the plain belonging to the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the tribe of Manasseh. 20:9 These were the cities of refuge ³⁷  appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by ³⁸  the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly. ³⁹ 

Yosua 21:9

21:9 They assigned from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities listed below.

Yosua 22:6

22:6 Joshua rewarded ⁴⁰  them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes. ⁴¹ 

Yosua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ⁴² 

Yosua 22:30

22:30 When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, ⁴³  they were satisfied. ⁴⁴ 

Yosua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ⁴⁵  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ⁴⁶  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ⁴⁷  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

[2:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[6:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “kept alive.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb the house of her father.”

[6:25]  ⁸ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

[6:25]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Shinar,” a reference to Babylon (cf. Gen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1). Many modern translations retain the Hebrew name “Shinar” (cf. NEB, NRSV) but some use the more familiar “Babylon” (cf. NIV, NLT).

[7:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “shekels.”

[8:11]  ¹² tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”

[8:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”

[8:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”

[8:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “residents.”

[8:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”

[8:24]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.

[8:31]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones on which no one had wielded iron.” The expression “whole stones” refers to stones in their natural condition, i.e., not carved or shaped artificially with tools (“wielded iron”).

[8:31]  ¹⁹ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[11:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

[11:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

[13:6]  ²² tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ²³ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[14:6]  ²⁴ tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”

[14:6]  sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.

[15:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “him.” The referent of the pronoun could be Othniel, in which case the translation would be, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 19. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. This incident is also recorded in Judg 1:14.

[17:16]  ²⁷ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

[17:16]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[18:13]  ²⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[19:27]  ³⁰ tn Heb “left.”

[20:6]  ³¹ tn Or “live.”

[20:6]  ³² tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

[20:6]  ³³ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

[20:6]  ³⁴ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

[20:8]  ³⁵ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[20:8]  ³⁶ tn Or “set aside.”

[20:9]  ³⁷ tn The Hebrew text reads simply “the cities.” The words “for refuge” are supplied for clarification.

[20:9]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and not die by the hand of.”

[20:9]  ³⁹ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly.” The words “at least” are supplied for clarification.

[22:6]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “blessed.” However, see v. 8, where rewards are given.

[22:6]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and they went to their tents.”

[22:17]  ⁴² tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

[22:30]  ⁴³ tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”

[22:30]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “it was good in their eyes.”

[23:16]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ⁴⁷ tn Or “perish.”