10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, 13 heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho 14 and its king. 15 He also heard how 16 the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.
10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. 17
1 tn Heb “they went and came.”
2 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.
3 tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.
4 tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”
5 tn Heb “with what was set apart [to the
6 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
7 tn Heb “give glory to.”
8 tn Or “servants.”
9 tn Heb “name.”
10 tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”
11 tn Heb “by the
12 tn Or “grumbled against.”
13 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
14 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
15 tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”
16 tn Heb “and how.”
17 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
18 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
19 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
20 tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
21 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
22 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”
25 tn That is, “their source of food and life.”
26 tn Or “offerings made by fire.”
27 tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).
sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.