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. ¹  You must help them

Yosua 2:4

2:4 But the woman hid the two men ²  and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, ³  but I didn’t know where they came from.

Yosua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ⁴  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ⁵ 

Yosua 4:7

4:7 tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing ⁶  before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. ⁷  These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.”

Yosua 5:13

Israel Conquers Jericho

5:13 When Joshua was near ⁸  Jericho, ⁹  he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. ¹⁰  Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” ¹¹ 

Yosua 8:11

8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. ¹²  They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. ¹³ 

Yosua 9:6

9:6 They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”

Yosua 9:11

9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. ¹⁴  Make a treaty with us.”’

Yosua 11:1

Israel Defeats a Northern Coalition

11:1 When King Jabin of Hazor ¹⁵  heard the news, he organized a coalition, including ¹⁶  King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,

Yosua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ¹⁷  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ¹⁸  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ¹⁹  Then the land was free of war.

Yosua 13:27

13:27 It included the valley of Beth Haram, ²⁰  Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth. ²¹ 

Yosua 15:18

15:18 One time Acsah ²²  came and charmed her father ²³  so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Yosua 17:4

17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” ²⁴  So Joshua ²⁵  assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ²⁶ 

Yosua 18:4

18:4 Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me. ²⁷ 

Yosua 18:8

18:8 When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, “Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the Lord here in Shiloh.”

Yosua 19:47

19:47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, ²⁸  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 ²⁹  Dan after their ancestor. ³⁰ )

Yosua 21:20

21:20 The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted cities from the tribe of Ephraim.

Yosua 21:27

21:27 They assigned to the Gershonite clans of the Levites the following cities: ³¹  from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) and Beeshtarah, along with the grazing areas of each – a total of two cities;

Yosua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ³²  is impure, ³³  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ³⁴  where the Lord himself lives, ³⁵  and settle down among us. ³⁶  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ³⁷  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Yosua 22:27

22:27 but as a reminder to us and you, ³⁸  and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence ³⁹  with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. ⁴⁰  Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ ⁴¹ 

Yosua 24:32

24:32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. ⁴²  So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph. ⁴³ 

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

[2:4]  ² tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p).

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.

[2:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[4:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “were cut off from before.”

[4:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “how the waters descending from above stood still.”

[5:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “in.”

[5:13]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[5:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he lifted up his eyes and looked. And look, a man was standing in front of him, and his sword was drawn in his hand.” The verb הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) invites the reader to view the scene through Joshua’s eyes. By calling the stranger “a man,” the author reflects Joshua’s perspective. The text shortly reveals his true identity (vv. 14-15).

[5:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

[8:11]  ¹² tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”

[8:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your servants.”

[11:1]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[11:1]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he sent to.”

[11:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[13:27]  ²⁰ tn Or “it included in the valley, Beth Haram.”

[13:27]  ²¹ sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2.

[15:18]  ²² tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:18]  ²³ tn Heb “him.” The referent of the pronoun could be Othniel, in which case the translation would be, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 19. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. This incident is also recorded in Judg 1:14.

[17:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “The Lord commanded Moses to assign to us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” Since Zelophehad had no sons, “brothers” must refer to their uncles, as the next sentence makes clear.

[17:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.

[17:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.”

[18:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”

[19:47]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the territory of the sons of Dan went out from them.”

[19:47]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Leshem.” The pronoun (“it”) has replaced the name “Leshem” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:47]  ³⁰ tn Heb “according to the name of their father.”

[21:27]  ³¹ tn The words “they assigned” and “the following cities” are supplied for clarification (also in v. 34).

[22:19]  ³² tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:19]  ³³ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

[22:19]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

[22:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

[22:19]  sn The phrase where the Lord himself lives refers to the tabernacle.

[22:19]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

[22:19]  ³⁷ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

[22:27]  ³⁸ tn Heb “but it is a witness between us and you.”

[22:27]  ³⁹ tn Heb “to do the service of the Lord before him.”

[22:27]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[22:27]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”

[24:32]  ⁴² tn Heb “one hundred qesitahs.” The Hebrew word קְשִׂיטָה (qesitah) is generally understood to refer to a unit of money, but the value and/or weight is unknown. The word occurs only here and in Gen 33:19 and Job 42:11.

[24:32]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and they became for the sons of Joseph an inheritance.” One might think “bones” is the subject of the verb “they became,” but the verb is masculine, while “bones” is feminine. The translation follows the emendation suggested in the BHS note, which appeals to the Syriac and Vulgate for support. The emended reading understands “the part (of the field)” as the subject of the verb “became.” The emended verb is feminine singular; this agrees with “the part” (of the field), which is feminine in Hebrew.