Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away¹ the disgrace² of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal³ even to this day.

Joshua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place⁴ west of Ai, between Bethel⁵ and Ai.⁶ Joshua spent that night with the army.⁷

Joshua 9:22

9:22 ⁸Joshua summoned the Gibeonites⁹ and said to them, “Why did you trick¹⁰ us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?¹¹

Joshua 23:10

23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away,¹² for the Lord your God fights for you¹³ as he promised you he would.¹⁴

Joshua 23:12

23:12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with¹⁵ these nations that remain near you,¹⁶ and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,¹⁷

¹tn Heb “rolled away.”

²sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

³sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

⁴tn Or “the place of ambush.”

⁵map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁶tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”

⁷tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”

⁸sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

⁹tn Heb “them.”

¹⁰tn Or “deceive.”

¹¹tn Heb “live in our midst?”

¹²tn Or “chases a thousand.”

¹³tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

¹⁴tn Heb “as he said to you.”

¹⁵tn Heb “and hug.”

¹⁶tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”

¹⁷tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”