Joshua 6:1

6:1 Now Jericho ¹  was shut tightly ²  because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. ³ 

Joshua 10:21

10:21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. ⁴  No one ⁵  dared threaten the Israelites. ⁶ 

Joshua 11:11

11:11 They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ⁷  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ⁸  Hazor.

Joshua 11:19

11:19 No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); ⁹  they had to conquer all of them, ¹⁰ 

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¹ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

² tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”

³ tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”

⁴ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

⁵ tc Heb “No man.” The lamed (ל) prefixed to אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) is probably dittographic (note the immediately preceding יִשְׂרָאֵל [isra’el] which ends in lamed, ל); cf. the LXX.

⁶ tn Heb “no man sharpened [or perhaps, “pointed”] his tongue against the sons of Israel.” Cf. NEB “not a man of the Israelites suffered so much as a scratch on his tongue,” which understands “sharpened” as “scratched” (referring to a minor wound). Most modern translations understand the Hebrew expression “sharpened his tongue” figuratively for opposition or threats against the Israelites.

⁷ tn Heb “and they struck down all life which was in it with the edge of the sword, annihilating.”

⁸ tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

⁹ tn The LXX omits this parenthetical note, which may represent a later scribal addition.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the whole they took in battle.”