Joshua 2:3

2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab:¹ “Turn over² the men who came to you³ – the ones who came to your house⁴ – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”

Joshua 3:13

3:13 When the feet⁵ of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler⁶ of the whole earth, touch⁷ the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”⁸

Joshua 6:5

6:5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn,⁹ have the whole army give a loud battle cry.¹⁰ Then the city wall will collapse¹¹ and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”¹²

Joshua 6:23

6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside¹³ the Israelite camp.

Joshua 9:18-19

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.¹⁴ The whole community criticized¹⁵ the leaders, 9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of¹⁶ the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt¹⁷ them!

Joshua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands,¹⁸ the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:16

A Summary of Israel’s Victories

11:16 Joshua conquered the whole land,¹⁹ including the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowlands,²⁰ the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowlands,

Joshua 13:9

13:9 Their territory started²¹ from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley), included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Joshua 17:18

17:18 The whole hill country²² will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours.²³ You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

¹tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”

²tn Heb “bring out.”

³tn 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.

⁴tn 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.

⁵tn Heb “the soles of the feet.”

⁶tn Or “Lord”; or “Master.”

⁷tn Or “rest in.”

⁸tn Heb “the waters of the Jordan, the waters descending from above, will be cut off so that they will stand in one pile.”

⁹tn Heb “and it will be at the sounding of the horn, the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn.” The text of Josh 6:5 seems to be unduly repetitive, so for the sake of English style and readability, it is best to streamline the text here. The reading in the Hebrew looks like a conflation of variant readings, with the second (“when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn”) being an interpolation that assimilates the text to verse 20 (“when the army heard the sound of the horn”). Note that the words “when you hear the sound of the ram's horn” do not appear in the LXX of verse 5.

¹⁰tn Heb “all the people will shout with a loud shout.”

¹¹tn Heb “fall in its place.”

¹²tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”

¹³tn Or “placed them outside.”

¹⁴tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

¹⁵tn Or “grumbled against.”

¹⁶tn Heb “to them by….”

¹⁷tn Or “touch.”

¹⁸tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

¹⁹tn Heb “Joshua took all this land.”

²⁰tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

²¹tn The words “their territory started” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²²tn 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.

²³tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”