2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 2 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 3 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 4
6:6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”
7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho 7 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 8 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.
8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men 10 of Ai who had chased them toward the desert 11 (they all fell by the sword), 12 all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, 14 heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho 15 and its king. 16 He also heard how 17 the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.
11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country 19 – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. 20 Joshua annihilated them and their cities.
12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land 21 to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
1 tn Heb “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”
2 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
3 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
4 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
5 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.”
6 tn Or “placed them outside.”
7 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
8 map For the location of Bethel see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
9 tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”
10 tn Heb “residents.”
11 tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”
12 tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.
13 tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the
14 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
15 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
16 tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”
17 tn Heb “and how.”
18 tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”
19 tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”
20 tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”
21 tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”
24 tn That is, “their source of food and life.”
25 tn Or “offerings made by fire.”
26 tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).
sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.
27 tn Heb “The
28 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.
29 tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the
30 tn Heb “from the portion of the sons of Judah was the inheritance of the sons of Simeon for the portion of the sons of Judah was too large for them, and the sons of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.”
31 tn Heb “with.”
32 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
33 tn Or “serve.”
34 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
35 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”