Yosua 1:15

1:15 until the Lord gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the Lord’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.” ¹ 

Yosua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ²  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ³  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ⁴ 

Yosua 2:4

2:4 But the woman hid the two men ⁵  and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, ⁶  but I didn’t know where they came from.

Yosua 7:5

7:5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures ⁷  and defeated them on the steep slope. ⁸  The people’s ⁹  courage melted away like water. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 7:12

7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. ¹¹  I will no longer be with you, ¹²  unless you destroy what has contaminated you. ¹³ 

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 11:21

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ¹⁵  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ¹⁶  Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

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 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 22:11

22:11 The Israelites received this report: ²⁰  “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to ²¹  the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

Yosua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ²²  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ²³  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ²⁴  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

Yosua 24:15

24:15 If you have no desire ²⁵  to worship ²⁶  the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, ²⁷  whether it be the gods whom your ancestors ²⁸  worshiped ²⁹  beyond the Euphrates, ³⁰  or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family ³¹  will worship ³²  the Lord!”

[1:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Then you may return to the land of your possession and possess it, that which Moses, the Lord’s servant, gave to you beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.”

[2:1]  ² tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

[2:1]  ³ tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

[2:1]  map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

[2:4]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.

[7:5]  ⁷ tn The meaning and correct translation of the Hebrew word שְׁבָרִים (shÿvarim) is uncertain. The translation “fissures” is based on usage of the plural form of the noun in Ps 60:4 HT (60:2 ET), where it appears to refer to cracks in the earth caused by an earthquake. Perhaps deep ravines or gorges are in view, or the word is a proper noun (“all the way to Shebarim”).

[7:5]  ⁸ sn The precise geographical location of the Israelite defeat at this “steep slope” is uncertain.

[7:5]  ⁹ tn Or “army’s.”

[7:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the heart of the people melted and became water.”

[7:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”

[7:12]  ¹² tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.

[7:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

[9:11]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your servants.”

[11:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

[11:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

[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.”

[22:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the sons of Israel heard, saying.”

[22:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “toward the front of.”

[23:16]  ²² tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ²³ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ²⁴ tn Or “perish.”

[24:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “if it is bad in your eyes.”

[24:15]  ²⁶ tn Or “to serve.”

[24:15]  ²⁷ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[24:15]  ²⁹ tn Or “served.”

[24:15]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

[24:15]  ³¹ tn Heb “house.”

[24:15]  ³² tn Or “will serve.”