Joshua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Joshua 24:7

24:7 Your fathers ⁴  cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, ⁵  and then drowned them in the sea. ⁶  You witnessed with your very own eyes ⁷  what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the fathers) has been specified in the translation for clarity (see the previous verse).

⁵ tn Or “put darkness between you and the Egyptians.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”

⁷ tn Heb “your eyes saw.”

⁸ tn Heb “many days.”