Yosua 1:16

1:16 They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

Yosua 6:18

6:18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster. ¹ 

Yosua 8:35

8:35 Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given ²  before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them. ³ 

Yosua 9:7

9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. ⁴  So how can we make a treaty with you?”

Yosua 9:12-13

9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, ⁵  but now it is dry and hard. ⁶  9:13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”

Yosua 9:19

9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ⁷  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ⁸  them!

Yosua 10:21

10:21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. ⁹  No one ¹⁰  dared threaten the Israelites. ¹¹ 

Yosua 10:32

10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they ¹²  captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

Yosua 14:11

14:11 Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then. ¹³ 

Yosua 17:5

17:5 Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, ¹⁴  in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

Yosua 18:6

18:6 But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Yosua 18:9-10

18:9 The men journeyed ¹⁵  through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh. 18:10 Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.

Yosua 22:20

22:20 When Achan son of Zerah disobeyed the command about the city’s riches, the entire Israelite community was judged, ¹⁶  though only one man had sinned. He most certainly died for his sin!’” ¹⁷ 

Yosua 22:32

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. ¹⁸ 

Yosua 24:22

24:22 Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” ¹⁹  They replied, “We are witnesses!” ²⁰ 

[6:18]  ¹ tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to the Lord] so that you might not, as you are setting [it] apart, take some of what is set apart [to the Lord] and make the camp of Israel set apart [to destruction by the Lord] and bring trouble on it.”

[8:35]  ² tn Heb “There was not a word from all which Moses commanded that Joshua did not read aloud.”

[8:35]  ³ tn Heb “walked in their midst.”

[9:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “in our midst.”

[9:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the day we went out to come to you.”

[9:12]  ⁶ tn Or “moldy.”

[9:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “to them by….”

[9:19]  ⁸ tn Or “touch.”

[10:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

[10:21]  ¹⁰ tc Heb “No man.” The lamed (ל) prefixed to אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) is probably dittographic (note the immediately preceding יִשְׂרָאֵל [isra’el] which ends in lamed, ל); cf. the LXX.

[10:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “no man sharpened [or perhaps, “pointed”] his tongue against the sons of Israel.” Cf. NEB “not a man of the Israelites suffered so much as a scratch on his tongue,” which understands “sharpened” as “scratched” (referring to a minor wound). Most modern translations understand the Hebrew expression “sharpened his tongue” figuratively for opposition or threats against the Israelites.

[10:32]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[14:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”

[17:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the allotted portions of Manasseh fell out ten.”

[18:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went and passed through.”

[22:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Is it not [true that] Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord] and against all the assembly of Israel there was anger?”

[22:20]  ¹⁷ tn The second half of the verse reads literally, “and he [was] one man, he did not die for his sin.” There are at least two possible ways to explain this statement: (1) One might interpret the statement to mean that Achan was not the only person who died for his sin. In this case it could be translated, “and he was not the only one to die because of his sin.” (2) Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to take the words וְהוּא אִישׁ אֶחָד (vÿhu’ ’ish ’ekhad, “and he [was] one man”) as a concessive clause and join it with what precedes. The remaining words (לֹא גָוַע בַּעֲוֹנוֹ, lo’ gava’ ba’avono) must then be taken as a rhetorical question (“Did he not die for his sin?”). Taking the last sentence as interrogative is consistent with the first part of the verse, a rhetorical question introduced with the interrogative particle. The present translation has converted these rhetorical questions into affirmative statements to bring out more clearly the points they are emphasizing. For further discussion, see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 240.

[22:32]  ¹⁸ 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.”

[24:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord to serve him.”

[24:22]  ²⁰ sn Like witnesses in a court of law, Israel’s solemn vow to worship the Lord will testify against them in the divine court if the nation ever violates its commitment.