Joshua 1:9

1:9 I repeat, ¹  be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, ²  for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” ³ 

Joshua 10:25

10:25 Then Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ⁴  Be strong and brave, for the Lord will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.

Joshua 17:18

17:18 The whole hill country ⁵  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ⁶  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Joshua 23:6

23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey ⁷  all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

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¹ tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.

² tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”

³ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

⁴ tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

⁶ tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

⁷ tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”