Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are¹ very strong and brave! Carefully obey² 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 successful⁴ in all you do.⁵

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 they⁶ crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.⁷

Joshua 7:24

7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster.⁸

Joshua 23:14

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die.⁹ You know with all your heart and being¹⁰ that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled!¹¹

¹tn Or “Only be.”

²tn 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!”

³tn Heb “commanded you.”

⁴tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

⁵tn Heb “in all which you go.”

⁶tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

⁷tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

⁸tn Or “Trouble” The name is “Achor” in Hebrew, which means “disaster” or “trouble” (also in v. 26).

⁹tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

¹⁰tn Or “soul.”

¹¹tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”