Joshua 1:5

1:5 No one will be able to resist you¹ all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.

Joshua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips!² You must memorize it³ day and night so you can carefully obey⁴ all that is written in it. Then you will prosper⁵ and be successful.⁶

Joshua 2:22

2:22 They went⁷ to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them⁸ to return. Their pursuers⁹ looked all along the way but did not find them.¹⁰

Joshua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army,¹¹ “Do not give a battle cry¹² or raise your voices; say nothing¹³ until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’¹⁴ Then give the battle cry!”¹⁵

Joshua 9:18

9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel.¹⁶ The whole community criticized¹⁷ the leaders,

Joshua 10:6

10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon¹⁸ your subjects!¹⁹ Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.”²⁰

Joshua 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.²¹

Joshua 13:14

13:14 However, Moses²² did not assign land as an inheritance²³ to the Levites; their inheritance²⁴ is the sacrificial offerings²⁵ made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed²⁶ them.

Joshua 20:5

20:5 When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation.²⁷

Joshua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.²⁸

¹tn Heb “A man will not stand before you.” The second person pronouns in this verse are singular, indicating Joshua is the addressee.

²tn Heb “mouth.”

sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.

³tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

⁴tn Heb “be careful to do.”

⁵tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

⁶tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

⁷tn Heb “they went and came.”

⁸tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

⁹tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.

¹⁰tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

¹¹tn Heb “the people.”

¹²tn Or “the shout.”

¹³tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

¹⁴tn Or “the shout.”

¹⁵tn Or “the shout.”

¹⁶tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

¹⁷tn Or “grumbled against.”

¹⁸tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”

¹⁹tn Heb “your servants!”

²⁰tn Heb “have gathered against us.”

²¹tn 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.”

²²tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²³tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”

²⁴tn That is, “their source of food and life.”

²⁵tn Or “offerings made by fire.”

²⁶tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).

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

²⁷tn Heb “for without knowledge he killed his neighbor, and he was not hating him prior to that.”

²⁸tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”