Joshua 1:7
1:7 Make sure you are 1 very strong and brave! Carefully obey 2 all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! 3 Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful 4 in all you do. 5
Joshua 1:15
1:15 until the Lord gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the Lord’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.” 6
Joshua 4:10
4:10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly,
Joshua 9:24
9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects 7 how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified 8 we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.
Joshua 13:21
13:21 It encompassed 9 all the cities of the plain and the whole realm of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon. Moses defeated him and the Midianite leaders Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba (they were subjects of Sihon and lived in his territory). 10
Joshua 14:10
14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.
Joshua 18:7
18:7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the Lord. 11 Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land 12 east of the Jordan which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned them.”
Joshua 22:4
22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, 13 just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes 14 in your own land 15 which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.
Joshua 22:7
22:7 (Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, 16 he rewarded 17 them,
1 tn Or “Only be.”
2 tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”
3 tn Heb “commanded you.”
4 tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
5 tn Heb “in all which you go.”
6 tn Heb “Then you may return to the land of your possession and possess it, that which Moses, the Lord’s servant, gave to you beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.”
7 tn Heb “your servants.”
8 tn Or “we were very afraid.”
9 tn The words “it encompassed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
10 tn Heb “princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.”
11 tn Or “the priesthood of the Lord.”
12 tn Or “inheritance.”
13 tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”
14 tn Heb “tents.”
15 tn Heb “the land of your possession.”
16 tn Heb “to their tents.”
17 tn Heb “blessed.”