Yosua 3:10

3:10 Joshua continued, ¹  “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Yosua 4:7

4:7 tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing ²  before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. ³  These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.”

Yosua 6:17

6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, ⁴  except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies ⁵  we sent.

Yosua 6:26

6:26 At that time Joshua made this solemn declaration: ⁶  “The man who attempts to rebuild ⁷  this city of Jericho ⁸  will stand condemned before the Lord. ⁹  He will lose his firstborn son when he lays its foundations and his youngest son when he erects its gates!” ¹⁰ 

Yosua 7:26

7:26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day ¹¹ ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Yosua 22:9

22:9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, ¹²  which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses.

Yosua 23:14

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ¹³  You know with all your heart and being ¹⁴  that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! ¹⁵ 

[3:10]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[4:7]  ² tn Heb “were cut off from before.”

[4:7]  ³ tn Heb “how the waters descending from above stood still.”

[6:17]  ⁴ tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”

[6:17]  sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).

[6:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “messengers.”

[6:26]  ⁶ tn Normally the Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) has a causative sense (“make [someone] take an oath”; see Josh 2:17, 20), but here (see also Josh 23:7) no object is stated or implied. If Joshua is calling divine judgment down upon the one who attempts to rebuild Jericho, then “make a solemn appeal [to God as judge]” or “pronounce a curse” would be an appropriate translation. However, the tone seems stronger. Joshua appears to be announcing the certain punishment of the violator. 1 Kgs 16:34, which records the fulfillment of Joshua’s prediction, supports this. Casting Joshua in a prophetic role, it refers to Joshua’s statement as the “word of the Lord” spoken through Joshua.

[6:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “rises up and builds.”

[6:26]  ⁸ tc The LXX omits “Jericho.” It is probably a scribal addition.

[6:26]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew phrase אָרוּר לִפְנֵי יְהוָה (’arur lifney yÿhvah, “cursed [i.e., condemned] before the Lord”) also occurs in 1 Sam 26:19.

[6:26]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “With his firstborn he will lay its foundations and with his youngest he will erect its gates.” The Hebrew verb יַצִּיב (yatsiv, “he will erect”) is imperfect, not jussive, suggesting Joshua’s statement is a prediction, not an imprecation.

[7:26]  ¹¹ tc Heb “to this day.” The phrase “to this day” is omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition.

[22:9]  ¹² tn Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”

[23:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ¹⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”