Joshua 2:11
2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. 1 For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!
Joshua 2:19
2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! 2 But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. 3
Joshua 9:19
9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of 4 the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt 5 them!
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. 6
Joshua 24:17
24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery 7 in the land of Egypt 8 and performed these awesome miracles 9 before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. 10
1 tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”
2 tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”
3 tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”
4 tn Heb “to them by….”
5 tn Or “touch.”
6 tn 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.”
7 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
8 tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”
9 tn Or “great signs.”
10 tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”