Joshua 7:12

7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. ¹  I will no longer be with you, ²  unless you destroy what has contaminated you. ³ 

Joshua 8:22

8:22 At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. ⁴  The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

Joshua 9:18

9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. ⁵  The whole community criticized ⁶  the leaders,

Joshua 10:12

10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: ⁷ 

“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!

O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”

Joshua 12:1

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land ⁸  on the east side of the Jordan, ⁹  from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:

Joshua 12:6

12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land ¹⁰  to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ¹¹  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ¹² 

Joshua 14:1

Judah’s Tribal Lands

14:1 The following is a record of the territory assigned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders. ¹³ 

Joshua 22:9

22:9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, ¹⁴  which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses.

Joshua 22:11

22:11 The Israelites received this report: ¹⁵  “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to ¹⁶  the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”

Joshua 22:32-33

22:32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. ¹⁷  22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ¹⁸  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ¹⁹ 

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¹ tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”

² tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.

³ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

⁴ tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”

⁵ tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

⁶ tn Or “grumbled against.”

⁷ 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”).

⁸ tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”

⁹ tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”

¹¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

¹² tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

¹³ tn Heb “These are [the lands] which the sons of Israel received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes assigned as an inheritance to the sons of Israel.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the sons of Israel heard, saying.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “toward the front of.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”