Joshua 2:9-10
2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. 1 We are absolutely terrified of you, 2 and all who live in the land are cringing before 3 you. 4
2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 5
Joshua 3:7
3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel 6 so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
Joshua 3:10
3:10 Joshua continued, 7 “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Joshua 6:8
6:8 When Joshua gave the army its orders, 8 the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the Lord moved ahead and blew the horns as the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed behind.
Joshua 6:13
6:13 The seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord marched along blowing their horns. Armed troops marched ahead of them, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark of the Lord blowing rams’ horns.
Joshua 7:6
7:6 Joshua tore his clothes; 9 he and the leaders 10 of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening 11 and threw dirt on their heads. 12
Joshua 7:8
7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated 13 before its enemies?
Joshua 7:12
7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. 14 I will no longer be with you, 15 unless you destroy what has contaminated you. 16
Joshua 10:10
10:10 The Lord routed 17 them before Israel. Israel 18 thoroughly defeated them 19 at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass 20 of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.
Joshua 10:12
10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 21
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”
Joshua 11:6
11:6 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn 22 their chariots.”
Joshua 13:6
13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, 23 all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” 24
Joshua 17:4
17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” 25 So Joshua 26 assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. 27
Joshua 18:8
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.”
Joshua 24:8
24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered 28 their land and I destroyed them from before you.
Joshua 24:17-18
24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery 29 in the land of Egypt 30 and performed these awesome miracles 31 before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. 32
24:18 The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship 33 the Lord, for he is our God!”
1 tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.
2 tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”
3 tn Or “melting away because of.”
4 tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the Lord…and that terror of you…and that all the inhabitants….”
5 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
6 tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”
7 tn Heb “said.”
8 tn Heb “when Joshua spoke to the people.”
9 sn Tearing one’s clothes was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Gen 37:34; 44:13).
10 tn Or “elders.”
11 tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.”
12 sn Throwing dirt on one’s head was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30).
13 tn Heb “turned [the] back.”
14 tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”
15 tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.
16 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”
17 tn Or “caused to panic.”
18 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the Lord should be understood as the referent (cf. NASB “and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon”), or even Joshua (cf. NEB “and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon”).
19 tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”
20 tn Or “ascent.”
21 tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day the Lord placed the Amorites before the sons of Israel and he said in the eyes of Israel.” It is uncertain whether the phrase “before the sons of Israel” modifies the verb “placed” (as in the present translation, “delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites”) or the verb “spoke” (“Joshua spoke to the Lord before the sons of Israel in the day the Lord delivered over the Amorites”).
22 tn Heb “burn with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.
23 tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).
24 tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”
25 tn Heb “The Lord commanded Moses to assign to us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” Since Zelophehad had no sons, “brothers” must refer to their uncles, as the next sentence makes clear.
26 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.
27 tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.”
28 tn Or “took possession of.”
29 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
30 tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”
31 tn Or “great signs.”
32 tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”
33 tn Or “will serve.”