Joshua 2:17

2:17 The men said to her, “We are not bound by this oath you made us swear unless the following conditions are met: ¹ 

Joshua 2:21

2:21 She said, “I agree to these conditions.” ²  She sent them on their way ³  and then tied the red rope in the window.

Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ⁴  the disgrace ⁵  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ⁶  even to this day.

Joshua 9:7

9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. ⁷  So how can we make a treaty with you?”

Joshua 9:22

9:22 ⁸ Joshua summoned the Gibeonites ⁹  and said to them, “Why did you trick ¹⁰  us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby? ¹¹ 

Joshua 17:17

17:17 Joshua said to the family ¹²  of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.

Joshua 18:3

18:3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying ¹³  the land the Lord God of your ancestors ¹⁴  has given you?

Joshua 22:15

22:15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:

Joshua 24:22

24:22 Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” ¹⁵  They replied, “We are witnesses!” ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “We are free from this oath of yours which you made us swear.” The words “unless the following conditions are met” are not in the Hebrew text, but are added for clarification.

² tn Heb “According to your words, so it [will be].”

³ tn Heb “she sent them away and they went.”

⁴ tn Heb “rolled away.”

⁵ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

⁶ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

⁷ tn Heb “in our midst.”

⁸ sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

⁹ tn Heb “them.”

¹⁰ tn Or “deceive.”

¹¹ tn Heb “live in our midst?”

¹² tn Heb “house.”

¹³ tn Heb “How long are you putting off entering and possessing.”

¹⁴ tn Or “fathers.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord to serve him.”

¹⁶ sn Like witnesses in a court of law, Israel’s solemn vow to worship the Lord will testify against them in the divine court if the nation ever violates its commitment.