Yosua 7:3

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua, ¹  “Don’t send the whole army. ²  About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. ³  Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.” ⁴ 

Yosua 7:13

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ⁵  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ⁶ 

Yosua 10:13

10:13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. ⁷  The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. ⁸ 

Yosua 10:28

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. ⁹ 

Yosua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ¹⁰  Misrephoth Maim, ¹¹  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Yosua 21:44

21:44 The Lord made them secure, ¹²  in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. ¹³  None of their enemies could resist them. ¹⁴ 

[7:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

[7:3]  ³ tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

[10:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.

[10:13]  sn The Scroll of the Upright One was apparently an ancient Israelite collection of songs and prayers (see also 2 Sam 1:18).

[10:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”

[10:28]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[11:8]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:8]  ¹¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[21:44]  ¹² tn Heb “gave them rest all around.”

[21:44]  ¹³ tn Heb “according to all he swore to their fathers.”

[21:44]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “not a man stood from before them from all their enemies.”