Yosua 1:13

1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. ¹  The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. ² 

Yosua 1:18

1:18 Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. ³  But ⁴  be strong and brave!”

Yosua 2:14

2:14 The men said to her, “If you ⁵  die, may we die too! ⁶  If you do not report what we’ve been up to, ⁷  then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance ⁸  to you.” ⁹ 

Yosua 2:20-21

2:20 If you should report what we’ve been up to, ¹⁰  we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.” 2:21 She said, “I agree to these conditions.” ¹¹  She sent them on their way ¹²  and then tied the red rope in the window.

Yosua 3:9

3:9 Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

Yosua 4:10

4:10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly,

Yosua 5:4

5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt. ¹³ 

Yosua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, ¹⁴  “Do not give a battle cry ¹⁵  or raise your voices; say nothing ¹⁶  until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ ¹⁷  Then give the battle cry!” ¹⁸ 

Yosua 8:8

8:8 When you capture the city, set it ¹⁹  on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.” ²⁰ 

Yosua 8:27

8:27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua. ²¹ 

Yosua 8:34-35

8:34 Then ²²  Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll. 8:35 Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given ²³  before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them. ²⁴ 

Yosua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ²⁵  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ²⁶  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Yosua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ²⁷ 

Yosua 14:6-7

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. ²⁸  14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ²⁹ 

Yosua 14:10

14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

Yosua 20:4

20:4 The one who committed manslaughter ³⁰  should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. ³¹  They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there. ³² 

Yosua 21:45

21:45 Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel ³³  was left unfulfilled; every one was realized. ³⁴ 

Yosua 22:24

22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that ³⁵  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ³⁶ 

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, ³⁷  they were satisfied. ³⁸ 

Yosua 22:32-33

22:32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. ³⁹  22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ⁴⁰  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ⁴¹ 

Yosua 23:14-15

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ⁴²  You know with all your heart and being ⁴³  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! ⁴⁴  23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ⁴⁵  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ⁴⁶  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Yosua 24:26

24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

Yosua 24:29

An Era Ends

24:29 After all this ⁴⁷  Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.

[1:13]  ¹ tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you.”

[1:13]  sn This command can be found in Deut 3:18-20. In vv. 13-15 Joshua paraphrases the command, as the third person reference to Moses in v. 14 indicates.

[1:13]  ² tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”

[1:13]  sn “This land” refers to the trans-Jordanian lands allotted to these tribes.

[1:18]  ³ tn Heb “any man who rebels against your mouth and does not listen to your words, to all which you command us, will be put to death.”

[1:18]  ⁴ tn Or “Only.” Here and in v. 17 this word qualifies what precedes (see also v. 7).

[2:14]  ⁵ tn The second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that Rahab’s entire family is in view.

[2:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “Our lives in return for you to die.” If the lives of Rahab’s family are not spared, then the spies will pay for the broken vow with their own lives.

[2:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “If you do not report this matter of ours.”

[2:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “allegiance and faithfulness.” These virtual synonyms are joined in the translation as “unswerving allegiance” to emphasize the degree of promised loyalty.

[2:14]  ⁹ tn The second person pronoun is feminine singular, referring specifically to Rahab.

[2:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and if you report this matter of ours.”

[2:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “According to your words, so it [will be].”

[2:21]  ¹² tn Heb “she sent them away and they went.”

[5:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”

[6:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

[6:10]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ¹⁸ tn Or “the shout.”

[8:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the city.”

[8:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “I have commanded you.”

[8:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.”

[8:34]  ²² tn Or “afterward.”

[8:35]  ²³ tn Heb “There was not a word from all which Moses commanded that Joshua did not read aloud.”

[8:35]  ²⁴ tn Heb “walked in their midst.”

[9:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “your servants.”

[9:24]  ²⁶ tn Or “we were very afraid.”

[11:15]  ²⁷ tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

[14:6]  ²⁸ 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.

[14:7]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

[20:4]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:4]  ³¹ tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

[20:4]  ³² tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”

[21:45]  ³³ tn Heb “the house of Israel.” Cf. NCV “the Israelites”; TEV “the people of Israel”; CEV, NLT “Israel.”

[21:45]  ³⁴ tn Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.”

[22:24]  ³⁵ tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”

[22:24]  ³⁶ tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”

[22:30]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”

[22:30]  ³⁸ tn Heb “it was good in their eyes.”

[22:32]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.”

[22:33]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”

[23:14]  ⁴² tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ⁴³ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ⁴⁴ 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.”

[23:15]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

[24:29]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “after these things.”