Discovery BoxJoshua 1:11 
Context1:11 “Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’” 1
Joshua 1:13-14
Context1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. 2 The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. 3 1:14 Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. 4 You must help them
Joshua 2:1
Context2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 5 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 6 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 7
Joshua 2:3
Context2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: 8 “Turn over 9 the men who came to you 10 – the ones who came to your house 11 – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”
Joshua 2:18
Context2:18 When we invade the land 12 , tie this red rope 13 in the window through which you let us down, and gather together in your house your father, mother, brothers, and all who live in your father’s house. 14
Joshua 6:22
Context6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house 15 and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” 16
Joshua 7:2
Context7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho 17 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 18 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.
Joshua 7:9
Context7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us 19 from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” 20
Joshua 9:6
Context9:6 They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”
Joshua 9:9
Context9:9 They told him, “Your subjects 21 have come from a very distant land because of the reputation 22 of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 23
Joshua 9:11
Context9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. 24 Make a treaty with us.”’
Joshua 10:40
Context10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, 25 the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
Joshua 12:6
Context12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land 26 to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 13:14
Context13:14 However, Moses 27 did not assign land as an inheritance 28 to the Levites; their inheritance 29 is the sacrificial offerings 30 made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed 31 them.
Joshua 14:1
Context14:1 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. 32
Joshua 14:7
Context14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. 33
Joshua 14:9
Context14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: 34 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 35 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 36 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’
Joshua 15:1
Context15:1 The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south. 37
Joshua 15:18-19
Context15:18 One time Acsah 38 came and charmed her father 39 so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?” 15:19 She answered, “Please give me a special present. 40 Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.
Joshua 16:1
Context16:1 The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho 41 to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. 42
Joshua 16:5
Context16:5 The territory of the tribe of Ephraim by its clans included the following: 43 The border of their assigned land to the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.
Joshua 17:2
Context17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land 44 by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.
Joshua 18:9
Context18:9 The men journeyed 45 through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.
Joshua 18:28
Context18:28 Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city 46 (that is, Jerusalem), 47 Gibeah, and Kiriath – a total of fourteen cities and their towns. 48 This was the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin 49 by its clans.
Joshua 19:8
Context19:8 as well as all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the land assigned to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. 50
Joshua 21:2
Context21:2 in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”
Joshua 22:10-11
Context22:10 The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar. 51 22:11 The Israelites received this report: 52 “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to 53 the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”
Joshua 22:33
Context22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. 54 They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. 55
Joshua 24:13
Context24:13 I gave you a land in 56 which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of 57 vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
Joshua 24:17-18
Context24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery 58 in the land of Egypt 59 and performed these awesome miracles 60 before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. 61 24:18 The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship 62 the Lord, for he is our God!”
1 tn Heb “to enter to possess the land which the
2 tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the
sn This command can be found in Deut 3:18-20. In vv. 13-15 Joshua paraphrases the command, as the third person reference to Moses in v. 14 indicates.
3 tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”
sn “This land” refers to the trans-Jordanian lands allotted to these tribes.
4 tn Heb “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”
5 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
6 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
7 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
8 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
9 tn Heb “bring out.”
10 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
11 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
12 tn Heb “Look! We are about to enter the land.”
13 tn Heb “the cord of this red thread.”
14 tn Heb “and your father and your mother and your brothers and all the house of your father gather to yourself to the house.”
15 tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”
16 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”
17 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
18 map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
19 tn Heb “and cut off our name.”
20 tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”
21 tn Or “servants.”
22 tn Heb “name.”
23 tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”
24 tn Heb “your servants.”
25 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
26 tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”
27 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
28 tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”
29 tn That is, “their source of food and life.”
30 tn Or “offerings made by fire.”
31 tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).
sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.
32 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.”
33 tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”
34 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
35 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
36 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
37 tn Heb “The lot was to the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin toward the south, southward.”
38 tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
39 tn Heb “him.” The referent of the pronoun could be Othniel, in which case the translation would be, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 19. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. This incident is also recorded in Judg 1:14.
40 tn Elsewhere this Hebrew word (בְּרָכָה, bÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).
41 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
42 tn Heb “The lot went out to the sons of Joseph from the Jordan [at] Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, the desert going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.”
map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
43 tn Heb “The territory of the sons of Ephraim was for their clans.”
44 tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”
45 tn Heb “went and passed through.”
46 tn The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
47 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
48 tn The structure of this list presents problems. In v. 28 no conjunction appears before “Haeleph” or “Kiriath” in the Hebrew text. This suggests they should be compounded with the preceding names, yielding “Zelah Haeleph” and “Gibeah Kiriath” respectively. This results in a list of only twelve cities, however, while the summary statement (v. 28) gives the number fourteen. One should note, however, that the city lists in chap. 15 do not consistently use the conjunction before the name of each city. See also Josh 19:7, where no conjunction appears before “Rimmon,” but the summary assumes that Ain and Rimmon are distinct.
49 tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin.”
50 tn Heb “this was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon.”
51 tn Heb “and they went to Geliloth of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar near the Jordan, an altar great with respect to appearance.”
52 tn Heb “the sons of Israel heard, saying.”
53 tn Heb “toward the front of.”
54 tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”
55 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.”
56 tn Or perhaps, “for.”
57 tn The words “the produce of” are supplied for clarification.
58 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
59 tn Heb “for the
60 tn Or “great signs.”
61 tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”
62 tn Or “will serve.”
