Joshua 2:14

2:14 The men said to her, “If you 1  die, may we die too! 2  If you do not report what we’ve been up to, 3  then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance 4  to you.” 5 

Joshua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country 6  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” 7 

Joshua 22:29

22:29 Far be it from us to rebel against the Lord by turning back today from following after the Lord by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace 8  aside from the altar of the Lord our God located in front of his dwelling place!” 9 

Joshua 22:31

22:31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, 10  “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not disobeyed the Lord in this. 11  Now 12  you have rescued the Israelites from the Lord’s judgment.” 13 

1 tn The second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that Rahab’s entire family is in view.

2 tn Heb “Our lives in return for you to die.” If the lives of Rahab’s family are not spared, then the spies will pay for the broken vow with their own lives.

3 tn Heb “If you do not report this matter of ours.”

4 tn Heb “allegiance and faithfulness.” These virtual synonyms are joined in the translation as “unswerving allegiance” to emphasize the degree of promised loyalty.

5 tn The second person pronoun is feminine singular, referring specifically to Rahab.

6 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.

7 tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

8 tn Or “peace offerings.”

9 sn The Lord’s dwelling place here refers to the tabernacle.

10 tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”

11 tn Heb “because you were not unfaithful with this unfaithfulness against the Lord.”

12 tn On the use of אָז in a logical sense, see Waltke-O’Connor, Hebrew Syntax, 667.

13 tn Heb “the hand (i.e., power) of the Lord.”