Yosua 1:6

1:6 Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them. ¹ 

Yosua 1:2

1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! ²  Cross the Jordan River! ³  Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 2:8-9

2:8 He lifts the weak ⁵  from the dust;

he raises ⁶  the poor from the ash heap

to seat them with princes

and to bestow on them an honored position. ⁷ 

The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord,

and he has placed the world on them.

2:9 He watches over ⁸  his holy ones, ⁹ 

but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,

for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

1 Samuel 5:1-3

The Ark Causes Trouble for the Philistines

5:1 Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon. 5:3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, ¹⁰  Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Heb “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers.

[1:2]  ² tn Heb “Get up!”

[1:2]  ³ tn Heb “this Jordan”; the word “River” has been supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in v. 11).

[1:2]  ⁴ tc Heb “Cross over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.” The final phrase, “to the children of Israel,” is probably a later scribal addition specifying the identity of “these people/them.”

[2:8]  ⁵ tn Or “lowly”; Heb “insignificant.”

[2:8]  ⁶ tn The imperfect verbal form, which is parallel to the participle in the preceding line, is best understood here as indicating what typically happens.

[2:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “a seat of honor.”

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “guards the feet of.” The expression means that God watches over and protects the godly in all of their activities and movements. The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.

[2:9]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading the plural (“his holy ones”) rather than the singular (“his holy one”) of the Kethib.

[5:3]  ¹⁰ tc The LXX adds “they entered the temple of Dagon and saw.”