Yosua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Yosua 1:14

1:14 Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. ⁴  You must help them

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 8:20

8:20 When the men of Ai turned around, they saw ⁵  the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. ⁶  In the meantime the men who were retreating to the desert turned against their pursuers.

Yosua 10:24

10:24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he ⁷  summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, “Come here ⁸  and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up ⁹  and put their feet on their necks.

Yosua 12:1

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land ¹⁰  on the east side of the Jordan, ¹¹  from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:

Yosua 13:2

13:2 This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

Yosua 16:1

Joseph’s Tribal Lands

16:1 The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho ¹²  to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. ¹³ 

Yosua 17:9

17:9 The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh, ¹⁴  but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

Yosua 19:47

19:47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, ¹⁵  so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it ¹⁶  Dan after their ancestor. ¹⁷ )

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

[1:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”

[8:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they saw, and look.” The Hebrew term הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to the scene and invites the audience to view the events from the perspective of the men of Ai.

[8:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “and there was not in them hands to flee here or there.” The Hebrew term יָדַיִם (yadayim, “hands”) is idiomatic for “strength.”

[10:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “Joshua.” The translation has replaced the proper name with the pronoun (“he”) because a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant according to English style.

[10:24]  ⁸ tn Or “Draw near.”

[10:24]  ⁹ tn Or “drew near.”

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”

[12:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

[16:1]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[16:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “The lot went out to the sons of Joseph from the Jordan [at] Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, the desert going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.”

[16:1]  map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[17:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “these cities belonged to Ephraim in the midst of the cities of Manasseh.”

[19:47]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the territory of the sons of Dan went out from them.”

[19:47]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Leshem.” The pronoun (“it”) has replaced the name “Leshem” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:47]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the name of their father.”