Yosua 3:6

3:6 Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

Yosua 4:18-19

4:18 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, ¹  the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage. ² 

4:19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month ³  and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. ⁴ 

Yosua 4:24

4:24 He has done this so ⁵  all the nations ⁶  of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power ⁷  and so you might always obey ⁸  the Lord your God.”

Yosua 5:8

5:8 When all the men ⁹  had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Yosua 5:11

5:11 They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 6:3

6:3 Have all the warriors march around the city one time; ¹¹  do this for six days.

Yosua 8:3

8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. ¹²  Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Yosua 8:5-6

8:5 I and all the troops ¹³  who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them. 8:6 They will attack ¹⁴  us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

Yosua 9:21

9:21 The leaders then added, ¹⁵  “Let them live.” So they became ¹⁶  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. ¹⁷ 

Yosua 10:5

10:5 So the five Amorite kings (the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon) and all their troops gathered together and advanced. They deployed their troops and fought against Gibeon. ¹⁸ 

Yosua 10:14

10:14 There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed ¹⁹  a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Yosua 10:20

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

Yosua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ²¹  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Yosua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ²² 

Yosua 11:17

11:17 from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them. ²³ 

Yosua 11:20

11:20 for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. ²⁴ 

Yosua 14:8

14:8 My countrymen ²⁵  who accompanied ²⁶  me frightened the people, ²⁷  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ²⁸ 

Yosua 15:13

15:13 Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ²⁹ 

Yosua 17:3

17:3 Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Yosua 18:9

18:9 The men journeyed ³⁰  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 18:11

Benjamin’s Tribal Lands

18:11 The first lot belonged to the tribe of Benjamin ³¹  by its clans. Their allotted territory was between Judah and Joseph. ³² 

Yosua 18:21

18:21 These cities belonged to the tribe ³³  of Benjamin by its clans: Jericho, ³⁴  Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

Yosua 19:1

Simeon’s Tribal Lands

19:1 The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. ³⁵ 

Yosua 20:7

20:7 So they selected ³⁶  Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Yosua 22:2

22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you. ³⁷ 

Yosua 22:33

22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ³⁸  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ³⁹ 

Yosua 23:9

23:9 “The Lord drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you ⁴⁰  to this very day.

Yosua 23:12

23:12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with ⁴¹  these nations that remain near you, ⁴²  and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them, ⁴³ 

Yosua 24:8

24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered ⁴⁴  their land and I destroyed them from before you.

Yosua 24:31

24:31 Israel worshiped ⁴⁵  the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. ⁴⁶  These men had experienced firsthand everything the Lord had done for Israel. ⁴⁷ 

[4:18]  ¹ tn Heb “and the soles of the feet of the priests were brought up to the dry land.”

[4:18]  ² tn Heb “and the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as formerly over their banks.”

[4:18]  sn Verses 15-18 give a more detailed account of the priests’ crossing that had been briefly described in v. 11.

[4:19]  ³ sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The Passover in Egypt also occurred on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2; 13:4).

[4:19]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[4:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “in order that.”

[4:24]  ⁶ tn Or “peoples.”

[4:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “know the hand of the Lord that it is strong.”

[4:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “fear.”

[5:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “nation.”

[5:11]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds, “on this same day.” This is somewhat redundant in English and has not been translated.

[6:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and go around the city, all [you] men of war, encircling the city one time.” The Hebrew verb וְסַבֹּתֶם (vÿsabbotem, “and go around”) is plural, being addressed to the whole army.

[8:3]  ¹² tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”

[8:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “the people.”

[8:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “come out after.”

[9:21]  ¹⁵ tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

[9:21]  ¹⁶ tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.

[9:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

[10:5]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and they camped against Gibeon and fought against it.”

[10:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “listened to the voice of.”

[10:20]  ²⁰ 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”).

[11:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[11:15]  ²² tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

[11:17]  ²³ tn Heb “and struck them down and killed them.”

[11:20]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for from the Lord it was to harden their heart[s] to meet for the battle with Israel, in order to annihilate them, so that they would receive no mercy, in order annihilate them, as the Lord commanded Moses.”

[14:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “brothers.”

[14:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “went up with.”

[14:8]  ²⁷ tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

[14:8]  ²⁸ tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

[15:13]  ²⁹ tn Heb “To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah according to the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath Arba (the father of Anak), it is Hebron.”

[18:9]  ³⁰ tn Heb “went and passed through.”

[18:11]  ³¹ tn Heb “and the lot came up for the tribe of the sons of Benjamin.”

[18:11]  ³² tn Heb “and the territory of their allotment went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.”

[18:21]  ³³ tn Heb “the sons,” here referring to the tribe.

[18:21]  ³⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[19:1]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon by their clans.”

[20:7]  ³⁶ tn Heb “set apart.”

[22:2]  ³⁷ tn Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”

[22:33]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ³⁹ 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.”

[23:9]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “not a man has stood before you.”

[23:12]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and hug.”

[23:12]  ⁴² tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”

[23:12]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”

[24:8]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “took possession of.”

[24:31]  ⁴⁵ tn Or “served.”

[24:31]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived him.”

[24:31]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “who knew all the work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.”