Yosua 2:3

2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: ¹  “Turn over ²  the men who came to you ³  – the ones who came to your house ⁴  – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”

Yosua 8:5

8:5 I and all the troops ⁵  who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

Yosua 9:19

9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ⁶  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ⁷  them!

Yosua 10:21

10:21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. ⁸  No one ⁹  dared threaten the Israelites. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ¹¹  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Yosua 24:12

24:12 I sent terror ¹²  ahead of you to drive out before you the two ¹³  Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows. ¹⁴ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”

[2:3]  ² tn Heb “bring out.”

[2:3]  ³ tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.

[2:3]  ⁴ tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.

[8:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “the people.”

[9:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to them by….”

[9:19]  ⁷ tn Or “touch.”

[10:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

[10:21]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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.

[11:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[24:12]  ¹² tn Traditionally, “the hornet” (so KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV) but the precise meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain (cf. NEB “panic”).

[24:12]  ¹³ tn The LXX has “twelve,” apparently understanding this as a reference to Amorite kings west of the Jordan (see Josh 5:1, rather than the trans-Jordanian Amorite kings Sihon and Og (see Josh 2:10; 9:10).

[24:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and it drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not by your sword and not by your bow.” The words “I gave you the victory” are supplied for clarification.