Ulangan 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ¹ 

Yosua 14:8

14:8 My countrymen ²  who accompanied ³  me frightened the people, ⁴  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁵ 

[9:1]  ¹ tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[14:8]  ² tn Heb “brothers.”

[14:8]  ³ tn Heb “went up with.”

[14:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

[14:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.