Joshua 1:18

1:18 Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. ¹  But ²  be strong and brave!”

Joshua 2:17

2:17 The men said to her, “We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met: ³ 

Joshua 2:20

2:20 If you should report what we’ve been up to, ⁴  we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

Joshua 3:4

3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. ⁵  Keep your distance ⁶  so you can see ⁷  which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”

Joshua 5:7

5:7 He replaced them with their sons, ⁸  whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

Joshua 10:8

10:8 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. ⁹  Not one of them can resist you.” ¹⁰ 

Joshua 10:14

10:14 There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed ¹¹  a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Joshua 11:13

11:13 But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, ¹²  except for Hazor; ¹³  it was the only one Joshua burned.

Joshua 13:33

13:33 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance ¹⁴  to the Levites; their inheritance ¹⁵  is the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed ¹⁶  them.

Joshua 16:10

16:10 The Ephraimites ¹⁷  did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

Joshua 17:17

17:17 Joshua said to the family ¹⁸  of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.

Joshua 21:45

21:45 Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel ¹⁹  was left unfulfilled; every one was realized. ²⁰ 

Joshua 22:3

22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites ²¹  this entire time, ²²  right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God. ²³ 

Joshua 24:12

24:12 I sent terror ²⁴  ahead of you to drive out before you the two ²⁵  Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows. ²⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “any man who rebels against your mouth and does not listen to your words, to all which you command us, will be put to death.”

² tn Or “Only.” Here and in v. 17 this word qualifies what precedes (see also v. 7).

³ tn Heb “We are free from this oath of yours which you made us swear.” The words “unless the following conditions are met” are not in the Hebrew text, but are added for clarification.

⁴ tn Heb “and if you report this matter of ours.”

⁵ tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”

sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length.

⁶ tn Heb “do not approach it.”

⁷ tn Heb “know.”

⁸ tn Heb “their sons he raised up in their place.”

⁹ tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”

¹¹ tn Heb “listened to the voice of.”

¹² tn Heb “standing on their mounds.”

¹³ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

¹⁴ tn Heb “Moses did not assign an inheritance.” The word “land” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what the inheritance consisted of.

¹⁵ tn That is, “their source of food and life.”

¹⁶ tn Or “as he promised”; Heb “as he spoke to.”

sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.

¹⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ephraimites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁸ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “the house of Israel.” Cf. NCV “the Israelites”; TEV “the people of Israel”; CEV, NLT “Israel.”

²⁰ tn Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.”

²¹ tn Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.

²² tn Heb “these many days.”

²³ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”

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

²⁵ 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).

²⁶ 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.