Joshua 7:8
7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated 1 before its enemies?
Joshua 7:12
7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. 2 I will no longer be with you, 3 unless you destroy what has contaminated you. 4
Joshua 17:14
17:14 The descendants of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you assigned us only one tribal allotment? After all, we have many people, for until now the Lord has enabled us to increase in number.” 5
Joshua 24:27
24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. 6 It will be a witness against you if 7 you deny your God.”
1 tn Heb “turned [the] back.”
2 tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”
3 tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.
4 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”
5 tn Heb “Why have you given me as an inheritance one lot and one portion, though I am a great people until [the time] which, until now the Lord has blessed me?” The construction עַד אֲשֶׁר־עַד־כֹּה (’ad-’asher-’ad-koh, “until [the time] which, until now”) is extremely awkward. An emendation of the first עַד (’ad) to עַל (’al) yields a more likely reading: “for until now” (see HALOT 2:787).
6 tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”
7 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”