8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. 1 Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.
24:25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement 11 for the people, and he established rules and regulations 12 for them in Shechem.
1 tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”
2 tn Heb “All the people.”
3 tc Some textual witnesses read “the city.”
4 tn Or “were summoned”; or “were mustered.”
5 tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).
6 tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.
7 tn The LXX omits this parenthetical note, which may represent a later scribal addition.
8 tn Heb “the whole they took in battle.”
9 sn On the Israelites’ failure to conquer the Canaanites completely, see Judg 1:27-28.
10 tn Heb “to go up against them for battle.”
11 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
12 tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.”