Joshua 22:25
22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 1 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 2 the Lord.
Joshua 23:7
23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near 3 you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! 4 You must not worship 5 or bow down to them!
Joshua 24:18
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 6 the Lord, for he is our God!”
Joshua 24:20
24:20 If 7 you abandon the Lord and worship 8 foreign gods, he will turn against you; 9 he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, 10 though he once treated you well.” 11
1 tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”
2 tn Heb “fearing.”
3 tn Heb “with.”
4 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
5 tn Or “serve.”
6 tn Or “will serve.”
7 tn Or “when.”
8 tn Or “and serve.”
9 tn The words “against you” are added for clarification.
10 tn Heb “bring you to an end.”
11 tn Heb “after he did good for you.”