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 2:14

2:14 The men said to her, “If you ⁶  die, may we die too! ⁷  If you do not report what we’ve been up to, ⁸  then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance ⁹  to you.” ¹⁰ 

Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ¹¹  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ¹² 

Joshua 7:13

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ¹³  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ¹⁴ 

Joshua 8:14

8:14 When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. ¹⁵  But he did not realize ¹⁶  men were hiding behind the city. ¹⁷ 

Joshua 10:13

10:13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. ¹⁸  The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. ¹⁹ 

Joshua 18:7

18:7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the Lord. ²⁰  Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land ²¹  east of the Jordan which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned them.”

Joshua 20:9

20:9 These were the cities of refuge ²²  appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by ²³  the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly. ²⁴ 

Joshua 22:27-28

22:27 but as a reminder to us and you, ²⁵  and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence ²⁶  with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. ²⁷  Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ ²⁸  22:28 We said, ‘If in the future they say such a thing ²⁹  to us or to our descendants, we will reply, “See the model of the Lord’s altar that our ancestors ³⁰  made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’ ³¹ 

Joshua 22:31

22:31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, ³²  “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not disobeyed the Lord in this. ³³  Now ³⁴  you have rescued the Israelites from the Lord’s judgment.” ³⁵ 

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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 The second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that Rahab’s entire family is in view.

⁷ tn Heb “Our lives in return for you to die.” If the lives of Rahab’s family are not spared, then the spies will pay for the broken vow with their own lives.

⁸ tn Heb “If you do not report this matter of ours.”

⁹ tn Heb “allegiance and faithfulness.” These virtual synonyms are joined in the translation as “unswerving allegiance” to emphasize the degree of promised loyalty.

¹⁰ tn The second person pronoun is feminine singular, referring specifically to Rahab.

¹¹ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

¹² tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

¹³ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “When the king of Ai saw, the men of Ai hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people at the meeting place before the Arabah.”

¹⁶ tn Or “know.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “that (there was) an ambush for him behind the city.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.

sn The Scroll of the Upright One was apparently an ancient Israelite collection of songs and prayers (see also 2 Sam 1:18).

¹⁹ tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”

²⁰ tn Or “the priesthood of the Lord.”

²¹ tn Or “inheritance.”

²² tn The Hebrew text reads simply “the cities.” The words “for refuge” are supplied for clarification.

²³ tn Heb “and not die by the hand of.”

²⁴ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly.” The words “at least” are supplied for clarification.

²⁵ tn Heb “but it is a witness between us and you.”

²⁶ tn Heb “to do the service of the Lord before him.”

²⁷ tn Or “peace offerings.”

²⁸ tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”

²⁹ tn The words “such a thing” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

³¹ tn Heb “but it is a witness between us and you.”

³² tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”

³³ tn Heb “because you were not unfaithful with this unfaithfulness against the Lord.”

³⁴ tn On the use of אָז in a logical sense, see Waltke-O’Connor, Hebrew Syntax, 667.

³⁵ tn Heb “the hand (i.e., power) of the Lord.”