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 2:3
Context2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: 5 “Turn over 6 the men who came to you 7 – the ones who came to your house 8 – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”
Joshua 2:9
Context2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. 9 We are absolutely terrified of you, 10 and all who live in the land are cringing before 11 you. 12
Joshua 3:17
Context3:17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side. 13
Joshua 4:3
Context4:3 Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests 14 stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”
Joshua 4:23
Context4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 15
Joshua 6:16
Context6:16 The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns and Joshua told the army, 16 “Give the battle cry, 17 for the Lord is handing the city over to you! 18
Joshua 7:26
Context7:26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day 19 ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.
Joshua 8:18
Context8:18 The Lord told Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city 20 over to you.” So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.
Joshua 10:19
Context10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! 21 Don’t allow them to retreat to 22 their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” 23
Joshua 10:27
Context10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. 24 They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) 25
Joshua 10:30
Context10:30 The Lord handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel 26 put the sword to all who lived there; they 27 left no survivors. They 28 did to its king what they 29 had done to the king of Jericho. 30
Joshua 10:32
Context10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they 31 captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.
Joshua 11:8
Context11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, 32 Misrephoth Maim, 33 and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.
Joshua 12:5
Context12:5 and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead as far as the border of King Sihon of Heshbon.
Joshua 20:5
Context20:5 When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation. 34
Joshua 24:8
Context24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered 35 their land and I destroyed them from before you.
Joshua 24:11
Context24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. 36 The leaders 37 of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.
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 “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
6 tn Heb “bring out.”
7 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.
8 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.
9 tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.
10 tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”
11 tn Or “melting away because of.”
12 tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the
13 tn Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
14 tn Heb “the feet of the priests.”
15 tn Heb “just as the
16 tn Heb “the people.”
17 tn Or “the shout.”
18 tn Heb “for the
19 tc Heb “to this day.” The phrase “to this day” is omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition.
20 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Ai) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
21 tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”
22 tn Or “enter into.”
23 tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
24 sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.
25 tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
26 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
27 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
28 tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
29 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
30 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
31 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
32 map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
33 tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).
34 tn Heb “for without knowledge he killed his neighbor, and he was not hating him prior to that.”
35 tn Or “took possession of.”
36 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
37 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”
