8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men 22 of Ai who had chased them toward the desert 23 (they all fell by the sword), 24 all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon 25 your subjects! 26 Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” 27
14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. 30
18:8 When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, “Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the Lord here in Shiloh.” 18:9 The men journeyed 31 through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
1 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
2 tn Heb “bring out.”
3 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
4 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
5 tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”
6 tn Another way to translate vv. 6-7 would be, “While she took them up to the roof and hid them…, the king’s men tried to find them….” Both of the main clauses have the subject prior to the predicate, perhaps indicating simultaneous action. (On the grammatical point, see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 42, §235.) In this case Rahab moves the Israelite spies from the hiding place referred to in v. 4 to a safer and less accessible hiding place.
7 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarity.
8 tn Heb “And the men chased after them [on] the road [leading to] the Jordan to the fords.” The text is written from the perspective of the king’s men. As far as they were concerned, they were chasing the spies.
9 tn Heb “And they shut the gate after – as soon as the ones chasing after them went out.” The expressions “after” and “as soon as” may represent a conflation of alternate readings.
10 tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.
11 tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”
12 tn Or “melting away because of.”
13 tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the
14 tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”
15 tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”
16 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”
17 tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”
18 tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”
19 tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”
20 tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”
21 tn Heb “and ran.”
22 tn Heb “residents.”
23 tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”
24 tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.
25 tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”
26 tn Heb “your servants!”
27 tn Heb “have gathered against us.”
28 sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.
29 tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
30 tn Heb “You know the word which the
sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.
31 tn Heb “went and passed through.”