Yosua 10:20

10:20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. ¹ 

Yosua 15:47

15:47 Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ²  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ³ 

[10:20]  ¹ tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).

[15:47]  ² tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

[15:47]  ³ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.