Joshua 9:1

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan 1  – in the hill country, the lowlands, 2  and all along the Mediterranean coast 3  as far as 4  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –

Joshua 15:47

15:47 Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt 5  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. 6 

Joshua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) 7  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea 8  in the west. 9 

1 tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

2 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

3 tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

4 tn Heb “in front of.”

5 tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

6 tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

7 tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

8 tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

9 tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”