Joshua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips!¹ You must memorize it² day and night so you can carefully obey³ all that is written in it. Then you will prosper⁴ and be successful.⁵

Joshua 3:7

3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel⁶ so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua 4:9

4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones⁷ in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Joshua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army,⁸ “Do not give a battle cry⁹ or raise your voices; say nothing¹⁰ until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’¹¹ Then give the battle cry!”¹²

Joshua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared¹³ Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family,¹⁴ and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel¹⁵ to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.¹⁶

Joshua 10:12

10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel:¹⁷

“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!

O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”

Joshua 10:27-28

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees.¹⁸ They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)¹⁹

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.²⁰

Joshua 10:32

10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they²¹ captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

Joshua 14:9

14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise:²² ‘Surely the land on which you walked²³ will belong to you and your descendants permanently,²⁴ for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’

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.²⁵

¹tn 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.

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

³tn Heb “be careful to do.”

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

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

⁶tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”

⁷tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.

⁸tn Heb “the people.”

⁹tn Or “the shout.”

¹⁰tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

¹¹tn Or “the shout.”

¹²tn Or “the shout.”

¹³tn Heb “kept alive.”

¹⁴tn Heb the house of her father.”

¹⁵tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

¹⁶map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

¹⁷tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day the Lord placed the Amorites before the sons of Israel and he said in the eyes of Israel.” It is uncertain whether the phrase “before the sons of Israel” modifies the verb “placed” (as in the present translation, “delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites”) or the verb “spoke” (“Joshua spoke to the Lord before the sons of Israel in the day the Lord delivered over the Amorites”).

¹⁸sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

¹⁹tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁰map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

²¹tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

²²tn Heb “swore an oath.”

²³tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

²⁴tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”

²⁵tn 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.”