Joshua 2:12
2:12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the Lord’s name. 1 Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. 2 Give me a solemn pledge 3
Joshua 6:17
6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, 4 except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies 5 we sent.
Joshua 6:25
6:25 Yet Joshua spared 6 Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, 7 and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel 8 to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 9
Joshua 7:12
7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. 10 I will no longer be with you, 11 unless you destroy what has contaminated you. 12
Joshua 7:15
7:15 The one caught with the riches 13 must be burned up 14 along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
Joshua 9:9
9:9 They told him, “Your subjects 15 have come from a very distant land because of the reputation 16 of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 17
Joshua 9:18
9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. 18 The whole community criticized 19 the leaders,
Joshua 22:24
22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that 20 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 21
1 tn Heb “Now, swear to me by the Lord.”
sn To swear an oath in the Lord’s name would make the Lord the witness and guarantor of the promise attached to the oath. If the person making the oath should go back on the promise, the Lord would judge him for breaking the contract.
2 tn Heb “with the house of my father.”
3 tn Heb “true sign,” that is, “an inviolable token or pledge.”
4 tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”
sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).
5 tn Heb “messengers.”
6 tn Heb “kept alive.”
7 tn Heb the house of her father.”
8 tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”
9 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
10 tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”
11 tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.
12 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”
13 tn Heb “with what was set apart [to the Lord].”
14 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
15 tn Or “servants.”
16 tn Heb “name.”
17 tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”
18 tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”
19 tn Or “grumbled against.”
20 tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
21 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”