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 1:9

1:9 I repeat, ¹  be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, ²  for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” ³ 

Yosua 2:5

2:5 When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. ⁴  I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

Yosua 6:22

6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house ⁵  and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” ⁶ 

Yosua 18:3

18:3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying ⁷  the land the Lord God of your ancestors ⁸  has given you?

Yosua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ⁹  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ¹⁰  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ¹¹  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

Yosua 2:21

2:21 She said, “I agree to these conditions.” ¹²  She sent them on their way ¹³  and then tied the red rope in the window.

Yosua 22:9

22:9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, ¹⁴  which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses.

Yosua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ¹⁵  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ¹⁶  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ¹⁷  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ¹⁸  in all you do. ¹⁹ 

Yosua 1:16

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

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: ²⁰  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ²¹  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ²² 

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 7:22

7:22 Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath. ²³ 

Yosua 2:22

2:22 They went ²⁴  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ²⁵  to return. Their pursuers ²⁶  looked all along the way but did not find them. ²⁷ 

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. ²⁸  Make a treaty with us.”’

Yosua 2:16

2:16 She told them, “Head ²⁹  to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. ³⁰  Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you ³¹  to return. Then you can be on your way.”

Yosua 24:28

24:28 When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land. ³² 

Yosua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place ³³  west of Ai, between Bethel ³⁴  and Ai. ³⁵  Joshua spent that night with the army. ³⁶ 

Yosua 2:8

2:8 Now before the spies ³⁷  went to sleep, Rahab ³⁸  went up ³⁹  to the roof.

Yosua 18:9

18:9 The men journeyed ⁴⁰  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.

Yosua 1:11

1:11 “Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’” ⁴¹ 

Yosua 9:4

9:4 they did something clever. They collected some provisions ⁴²  and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched.

Yosua 6:23

6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside ⁴³  the Israelite camp.

Yosua 11:21

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ⁴⁴  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ⁴⁵  Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

Yosua 14:8

14:8 My countrymen ⁴⁶  who accompanied ⁴⁷  me frightened the people, ⁴⁸  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁴⁹ 

Yosua 1:3

1:3 I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses. ⁵⁰ 

Yosua 8:1

Israel Conquers Ai

8:1 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ⁵¹  Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! ⁵²  See, I am handing over to you ⁵³  the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

Yosua 24:4

24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, ⁵⁴  while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Yosua 2:4

2:4 But the woman hid the two men ⁵⁵  and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, ⁵⁶  but I didn’t know where they came from.

Yosua 15:18

15:18 One time Acsah ⁵⁷  came and charmed her father ⁵⁸  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 10:24

10:24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he ⁵⁹  summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, “Come here ⁶⁰  and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up ⁶¹  and put their feet on their necks.

Yosua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ⁶²  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ⁶³  and the high priest dies. ⁶⁴  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ⁶⁵ 

Yosua 2:7

2:7 Meanwhile ⁶⁶  the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River ⁶⁷  near the fords. ⁶⁸  The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them. ⁶⁹ 

Yosua 10:36

10:36 Joshua and all Israel marched up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it.

Yosua 14:7

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ⁷⁰ 

Yosua 22:12

22:12 When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them. ⁷¹ 

Yosua 22:7

22:7 (Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, ⁷²  he rewarded ⁷³  them,

Yosua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ⁷⁴  in the land of Egypt ⁷⁵  and performed these awesome miracles ⁷⁶  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ⁷⁷ 

Yosua 3:2

3:2 After three days the leaders went through the camp

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. ⁷⁸ 

Yosua 4:13

4:13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops ⁷⁹  marched past the Lord to fight ⁸⁰  on the plains of Jericho. ⁸¹ 

Yosua 9:17

9:17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities – Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Yosua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ⁸²  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ⁸³  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ⁸⁴  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ⁸⁵ 

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.” ⁸⁶  So Joshua ⁸⁷  assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ⁸⁸ 

Yosua 19:47

19:47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, ⁸⁹  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 ⁹⁰  Dan after their ancestor. ⁹¹ )

Yosua 20:4

20:4 The one who committed manslaughter ⁹²  should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. ⁹³  They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there. ⁹⁴ 

Yosua 7:2

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ⁹⁵  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ⁹⁶ ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Yosua 8:3

8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. ⁹⁷  Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Yosua 7:3-4

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua, ⁹⁸  “Don’t send the whole army. ⁹⁹  About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. ¹⁰⁰  Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.” ¹⁰¹ 

7:4 So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

Yosua 17:15

17:15 Joshua replied to them, “Since you have so many people, ¹⁰²  go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you.”

Yosua 4:5

4:5 Joshua told them, “Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

Yosua 10:29

10:29 Joshua and all Israel marched from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against it. ¹⁰³ 

Yosua 10:31

10:31 Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops ¹⁰⁴  and fought against it.

Yosua 15:15

15:15 From there he attacked the people of Debir. ¹⁰⁵  (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

Yosua 22:6

22:6 Joshua rewarded ¹⁰⁶  them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes. ¹⁰⁷ 

Yosua 3:1

Israel Crosses the Jordan

3:1 Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan. ¹⁰⁸  They camped there before crossing the river. ¹⁰⁹ 

Yosua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ¹¹⁰  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ¹¹¹  and walk ¹¹²  behind it.

Yosua 8:13

8:13 The army was in position – the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into ¹¹³  the middle of the valley.

Yosua 22:13

22:13 The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Yosua 22:33

22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ¹¹⁴  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ¹¹⁵ 

Yosua 23:5

23:5 The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, ¹¹⁶  so you can occupy ¹¹⁷  their land as the Lord your God promised ¹¹⁸  you.

Yosua 5:13

Israel Conquers Jericho

5:13 When Joshua was near ¹¹⁹  Jericho, ¹²⁰  he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. ¹²¹  Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” ¹²² 

Yosua 21:1

Levitical Cities

21:1 The tribal leaders of the Levites went before Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the Israelite tribal leaders

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.

[1:9]  ² tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”

[1:9]  ³ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[2:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”

[6:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”

[6:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”

[18:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “How long are you putting off entering and possessing.”

[18:3]  ⁸ tn Or “fathers.”

[23:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ¹¹ tn Or “perish.”

[2:21]  ¹² tn Heb “According to your words, so it [will be].”

[2:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “she sent them away and they went.”

[22:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”

[1:7]  ¹⁵ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[2:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

[2:1]  ²¹ 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]  ²² tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

[7:22]  ²³ tn Heb “Look, [it was] hidden in his tent, and the silver was beneath it.”

[2:22]  ²⁴ tn Heb “they went and came.”

[2:22]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

[2:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.

[2:22]  ²⁷ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

[9:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your servants.”

[2:16]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Go.”

[2:16]  ³⁰ tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”

[2:16]  ³¹ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[24:28]  ³² tn Heb “And Joshua sent the people away, each to his inheritance.”

[8:9]  ³³ tn Or “the place of ambush.”

[8:9]  ³⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:9]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”

[8:9]  ³⁶ tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”

[2:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “they.”

[2:8]  ³⁸ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Rahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:8]  ³⁹ tn The Hebrew text adds, “to them.” This is somewhat redundant in English and has not been translated.

[18:9]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “went and passed through.”

[1:11]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “to enter to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving to you to possess it.”

[9:4]  ⁴² tc Heb “and they went and [?].” The root and meaning of the verb form יִצְטַיָּרוּ (yitstayyaru) are uncertain. The form is most likely a corruption of יִצְטַיָּדוּ (yitstayyadu), read by some Hebrew mss and ancient versions, from the root צוּד (tsud, “take provisions,” BDB 845 s.v. II צוד) which also occurs in v. 11. Note NRSV “they went and prepared provisions”; cf. NEB “They went and disguised themselves”; NIV “they went as a delegation.”

[6:23]  ⁴³ tn Or “placed them outside.”

[11:21]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

[11:21]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

[14:8]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

[14:8]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “went up with.”

[14:8]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

[14:8]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

[1:3]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “Every place on which the sole of your foot walks, to you I have given it, as I said to Moses.” The second person pronouns in vv. 3-4 are plural, indicating that all the people are addressed here. The verbal form נְתַתִּיו (nÿtattiv, “I have given it”) is probably a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action. Another option is to translate, “I have already assigned it.” In this case the verb would probably refer to the Lord’s decree to Abraham that he would give this land to his descendants.

[8:1]  ⁵¹ tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”

[8:1]  ⁵² tn Heb “Take with you all the people of war and arise, go up against Ai!”

[8:1]  ⁵³ tn Heb “I have given into our hand.” The verbal form, a perfect, is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action.

[24:4]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it.”

[2:4]  ⁵⁵ 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]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.

[15:18]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:18]  ⁵⁸ 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.

[10:24]  ⁵⁹ 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]  ⁶⁰ tn Or “Draw near.”

[10:24]  ⁶¹ tn Or “drew near.”

[20:6]  ⁶² tn Or “live.”

[20:6]  ⁶³ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

[20:6]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

[20:6]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

[2:7]  ⁶⁶ tn Another way to translate vv. 6-7 would be, “While she took them up to the roof and hid them…, the king’s men tried to find them….” Both of the main clauses have the subject prior to the predicate, perhaps indicating simultaneous action. (On the grammatical point, see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 42, §235.) In this case Rahab moves the Israelite spies from the hiding place referred to in v. 4 to a safer and less accessible hiding place.

[2:7]  ⁶⁷ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarity.

[2:7]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “And the men chased after them [on] the road [leading to] the Jordan to the fords.” The text is written from the perspective of the king’s men. As far as they were concerned, they were chasing the spies.

[2:7]  ⁶⁹ tn Heb “And they shut the gate after – as soon as the ones chasing after them went out.” The expressions “after” and “as soon as” may represent a conflation of alternate readings.

[14:7]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

[22:12]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “to go up against them for battle.”

[22:7]  ⁷² tn Heb “to their tents.”

[22:7]  ⁷³ tn Heb “blessed.”

[24:17]  ⁷⁴ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

[24:17]  ⁷⁵ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

[24:17]  ⁷⁶ tn Or “great signs.”

[24:17]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”

[18:4]  ⁷⁸ 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.”

[4:13]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “men equipped for battle.”

[4:13]  ⁸⁰ tn Heb “for war.”

[4:13]  ⁸¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[6:25]  ⁸² tn Heb “kept alive.”

[6:25]  ⁸³ tn Heb the house of her father.”

[6:25]  ⁸⁴ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

[6:25]  ⁸⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[17:4]  ⁸⁶ 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]  ⁸⁷ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.

[17:4]  ⁸⁸ 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.”

[19:47]  ⁸⁹ tn Heb “the territory of the sons of Dan went out from them.”

[19:47]  ⁹⁰ tn Heb “Leshem.” The pronoun (“it”) has replaced the name “Leshem” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:47]  ⁹¹ tn Heb “according to the name of their father.”

[20:4]  ⁹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:4]  ⁹³ tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

[20:4]  ⁹⁴ tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”

[7:2]  ⁹⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ⁹⁶ map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:3]  ⁹⁷ tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”

[7:3]  ⁹⁸ tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

[7:3]  ⁹⁹ tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

[7:3]  ¹⁰⁰ tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

[7:3]  ¹⁰¹ tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

[17:15]  ¹⁰² tn Heb “If you are a great people.”

[10:29]  ¹⁰³ tn Heb “Libnah.” Repetition of the proper name here would be redundant according to English style, so the pronoun (“it”) has been employed in the translation.

[10:31]  ¹⁰⁴ tn Heb “encamped against it.”

[15:15]  ¹⁰⁵ tn Heb “he went up against the inhabitants of Debir.”

[22:6]  ¹⁰⁶ tn Heb “blessed.” However, see v. 8, where rewards are given.

[22:6]  ¹⁰⁷ tn Heb “and they went to their tents.”

[3:1]  ¹⁰⁸ tn Heb “And Joshua arose early in the morning and he and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan.”

[3:1]  ¹⁰⁹ tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[3:3]  ¹¹⁰ sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

[3:3]  ¹¹¹ tn Heb “set out from your place.”

[3:3]  ¹¹² tn Or “march.”

[8:13]  ¹¹³ tn Some Hebrew mss read, “spent the night in.”

[22:33]  ¹¹⁴ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ¹¹⁵ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”

[23:5]  ¹¹⁶ tn The Hebrew text reads, “from before you.” This has not been included in the translation because it is redundant in English.

[23:5]  ¹¹⁷ tn Or “take possession of.”

[23:5]  ¹¹⁸ tn Heb “said to.”

[5:13]  ¹¹⁹ tn Heb “in.”

[5:13]  ¹²⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[5:13]  ¹²¹ 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]  ¹²² tn Heb “Are you for us or for our enemies?”