Yosua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ¹  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ² 

Yosua 3:10

3:10 Joshua continued, ³  “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Yosua 5:4

5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt. ⁴ 

Yosua 7:9

7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ⁵  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ⁶ 

Yosua 8:20

8:20 When the men of Ai turned around, they saw ⁷  the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. ⁸  In the meantime the men who were retreating to the desert turned against their pursuers.

Yosua 9:1

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ⁹  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ¹⁰  and all along the Mediterranean coast ¹¹  as far as ¹²  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –

Yosua 10:10

10:10 The Lord routed ¹³  them before Israel. Israel ¹⁴  thoroughly defeated them ¹⁵  at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass ¹⁶  of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

Yosua 10:12-13

10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: ¹⁷ 

“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!

O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”

10:13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. ¹⁸  The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. ¹⁹ 

Yosua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ²⁰  Misrephoth Maim, ²¹  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Yosua 12:2

12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived ²²  in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley ²³  and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

Yosua 14:3

14:3 Now Moses had assigned land ²⁴  to the two-and-a-half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land ²⁵  to the Levites. ²⁶ 

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 15:10

15:10 It then turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, crossed to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Kesalon), descended to Beth Shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

Yosua 15:21

15:21 These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: ²⁷  Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Yosua 17:1

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. ²⁸  The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. ²⁹  They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. ³⁰ 

Yosua 17:14

17:14 The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you assigned us only one tribal allotment? After all, we have many people, for until now the Lord has enabled us to increase in number.” ³¹ 

Yosua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country ³²  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” ³³ 

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. ³⁴ 

Yosua 18:7-8

18:7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the Lord. ³⁵  Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land ³⁶  east of the Jordan which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned them.”

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 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

Yosua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ³⁷ 

Yosua 24:13

24:13 I gave you a land in ³⁸  which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of ³⁹  vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

[2:19]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[3:10]  ³ tn Heb “said.”

[5:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

[7:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

[8:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they saw, and look.” The Hebrew term הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to the scene and invites the audience to view the events from the perspective of the men of Ai.

[8:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “and there was not in them hands to flee here or there.” The Hebrew term יָדַיִם (yadayim, “hands”) is idiomatic for “strength.”

[9:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

[9:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[9:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[9:1]  ¹² tn Heb “in front of.”

[10:10]  ¹³ tn Or “caused to panic.”

[10:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the Lord should be understood as the referent (cf. NASB “and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon”), or even Joshua (cf. NEB “and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon”).

[10:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”

[10:10]  ¹⁶ tn Or “ascent.”

[10:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day the Lord placed the Amorites before the sons of Israel and he said in the eyes of Israel.” It is uncertain whether the phrase “before the sons of Israel” modifies the verb “placed” (as in the present translation, “delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites”) or the verb “spoke” (“Joshua spoke to the Lord before the sons of Israel in the day the Lord delivered over the Amorites”).

[10:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.

[10:13]  sn The Scroll of the Upright One was apparently an ancient Israelite collection of songs and prayers (see also 2 Sam 1:18).

[10:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”

[11:8]  ²⁰ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:8]  ²¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[12:2]  ²² tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”

[12:2]  ²³ tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.

[14:3]  ²⁴ tn Or “assigned an inheritance.”

[14:3]  ²⁵ tn Or “no inheritance.”

[14:3]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in their midst.”

[15:21]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and the cities were at the end of the tribe of the sons of Judah, at the border of Edom, to the south.”

[17:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

[17:1]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

[17:1]  ³⁰ tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”

[17:1]  sn On the assignment of Manasseh’s territory in Gilead and Bashan, see Josh 13:31.

[17:14]  ³¹ tn Heb “Why have you given me as an inheritance one lot and one portion, though I am a great people until [the time] which, until now the Lord has blessed me?” The construction עַד אֲשֶׁר־עַד־כֹּה (’ad-’asher-’ad-koh, “until [the time] which, until now”) is extremely awkward. An emendation of the first עַד (’ad) to עַל (’al) yields a more likely reading: “for until now” (see HALOT 2:787).

[17:16]  ³² tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

[17:16]  ³³ tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[18:4]  ³⁴ 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.”

[18:7]  ³⁵ tn Or “the priesthood of the Lord.”

[18:7]  ³⁶ tn Or “inheritance.”

[22:17]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

[24:13]  ³⁸ tn Or perhaps, “for.”

[24:13]  ³⁹ tn The words “the produce of” are supplied for clarification.