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 6:5

6:5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, ³  have the whole army give a loud battle cry. ⁴  Then the city wall will collapse ⁵  and the warriors should charge straight ahead.” ⁶ 

Yosua 9:1

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ⁷  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ⁸  and all along the Mediterranean coast ⁹  as far as ¹⁰  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –

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. ¹¹  Make a treaty with us.”’

Yosua 10:1

Israel Defeats an Amorite Coalition

10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, ¹²  heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho ¹³  and its king. ¹⁴  He also heard how ¹⁵  the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.

Yosua 11:1

Israel Defeats a Northern Coalition

11:1 When King Jabin of Hazor ¹⁶  heard the news, he organized a coalition, including ¹⁷  King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,

Yosua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ¹⁸  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ¹⁹  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ²⁰  Then the land was free of war.

Yosua 12:7

12:7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley to Mount Halak on up to Seir. Joshua assigned this territory to the Israelite tribes, ²¹ 

Yosua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ²²  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ²³ 

Yosua 15:21

15:21 These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: ²⁴  Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Yosua 17:1-2

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land. ²⁵  The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors. ²⁶  They were assigned Gilead and Bashan. ²⁷  17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land ²⁸  by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

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.” ²⁹ 

Yosua 20:4

20:4 The one who committed manslaughter ³⁰  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. ³¹  They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there. ³² 

Yosua 23:15

23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ³³  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ³⁴  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

[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.”

[6:5]  ³ tn Heb “and it will be at the sounding of the horn, the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn.” The text of Josh 6:5 seems to be unduly repetitive, so for the sake of English style and readability, it is best to streamline the text here. The reading in the Hebrew looks like a conflation of variant readings, with the second (“when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn”) being an interpolation that assimilates the text to verse 20 (“when the army heard the sound of the horn”). Note that the words “when you hear the sound of the ram's horn” do not appear in the LXX of verse 5.

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the people will shout with a loud shout.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “fall in its place.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”

[9:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

[9:1]  ⁸ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

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

[9:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in front of.”

[9:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your servants.”

[10:1]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[10:1]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[10:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”

[10:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and how.”

[11:1]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[11:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he sent to.”

[11:23]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[12:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotted portions.”

[13:6]  ²² tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ²³ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[15:21]  ²⁴ 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]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

[17:1]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

[17:1]  ²⁷ 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.

[17:2]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”

[17:14]  ²⁹ 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).

[20:4]  ³⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:4]  ³¹ tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

[20:4]  ³² tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”

[23:15]  ³³ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ³⁴ tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”