Joshua 2:10
2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 1
Joshua 3:15
3:15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface 2 of the water – (the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time) 3 –
Joshua 4:23
4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 4
Joshua 9:27
9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.) 5
Joshua 15:19
15:19 She answered, “Please give me a special present. 6 Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.
1 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
2 tn Heb “dipped into the edge.”
3 tn Heb “and the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest.”
sn The lengthy description of the priests’ arrival at the Jordan and the parenthetical reminder that the Jordan was at flood stage delay the climax of the story and add to its dramatic buildup.
4 tn Heb “just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when he dried [it] up before us while we crossed over.”
5 tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the Lord to this day at the place which he chooses.”
6 tn Elsewhere this Hebrew word (בְּרָכָה, bÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).