Joshua 3:9

3:9 Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

Joshua 4:4

4:4 Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe.

Joshua 4:21

4:21 He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’ ¹ 

Joshua 5:2-3

A New Generation is Circumcised

5:2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.” ²  5:3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins. ³ 

Joshua 9:26

9:26 Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them ⁴ 

Joshua 13:22

13:22 The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader, ⁵  along with the others. ⁶ 

Joshua 14:5

14:5 The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land. ⁷ 

Joshua 20:2

20:2 “Have the Israelites select ⁸  the cities of refuge ⁹  that I told you about through Moses.

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¹ tn Heb “What are these stones?”

² tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.

³ tn Or “Gibeath Haaraloth.” This name means “Hill of the Foreskins.” Many modern translations simply give the Hebrew name, although an explanatory note giving the meaning of the name is often included.

sn The name given to the place, Hill of the Foreskins was an obvious reminder of this important event.

⁴ tn Heb “And he did to them so and he rescued them from the hand of the sons of Israel and they did not kill them.”

⁵ tn Or “diviner.”

⁶ tn Heb “Balaam son of Beor, the omen-reader, the Israelites killed with the sword, along with their slain ones.”

⁷ tn Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”

⁸ tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”

⁹ tn Or “asylum.”