Joshua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ¹  You must memorize it ²  day and night so you can carefully obey ³  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ⁴  and be successful. ⁵ 

Joshua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ⁶  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ⁷  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ⁸ 

Joshua 2:16

2:16 She told them, “Head ⁹  to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. ¹⁰  Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you ¹¹  to return. Then you can be on your way.”

Joshua 7:8

7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated ¹²  before its enemies?

Joshua 9:19

9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ¹³  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ¹⁴  them!

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¹ tn 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.

² tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

³ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

⁴ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

⁵ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

⁶ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

⁷ tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁸ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

⁹ tn Heb “Go.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

¹² tn Heb “turned [the] back.”

¹³ tn Heb “to them by….”

¹⁴ tn Or “touch.”