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 1:14
Context1:14 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. 2 You must help them
Joshua 2:7
Context2:7 Meanwhile 3 the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River 4 near the fords. 5 The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them. 6
Joshua 2:10
Context2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 7
Joshua 3:13
Context3:13 When the feet 8 of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler 9 of the whole earth, touch 10 the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.” 11
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. 12
Joshua 4:3
Context4:3 Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests 13 stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”
Joshua 4:5
Context4:5 Joshua told them, “Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.
Joshua 4:9
Context4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones 14 in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.
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 7:8
Context7:8 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 16 before its enemies?
Joshua 9:1
Context9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan 17 – in the hill country, the lowlands, 18 and all along the Mediterranean coast 19 as far as 20 Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
Joshua 12:1
Context12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land 21 on the east side of the Jordan, 22 from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:
Joshua 13:27
Context13:27 It included the valley of Beth Haram, 23 Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth. 24
Joshua 16:1
Context16:1 The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho 25 to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. 26
Joshua 18:12
Context18:12 Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho 27 on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.
Joshua 18:19
Context18:19 It then crossed to the slope of Beth Hoglah to the north and ended at the northern tip of the Salt Sea 28 at the mouth of the Jordan River. 29 This was the southern border.
Joshua 20:8
Context20:8 Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho 30 they selected 31 Bezer in the desert on the plain belonging to the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 22:11
Context22:11 The Israelites received this report: 32 “Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to 33 the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”
Joshua 22:25
Context22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 34 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 35 the Lord.
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 36 their land and I destroyed them from before you.
Joshua 24:11
Context24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. 37 The leaders 38 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 “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”
3 tn Another way to translate vv. 6-7 would be, “While she took them up to the roof and hid them…, the king’s men tried to find them….” Both of the main clauses have the subject prior to the predicate, perhaps indicating simultaneous action. (On the grammatical point, see R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 42, §235.) In this case Rahab moves the Israelite spies from the hiding place referred to in v. 4 to a safer and less accessible hiding place.
4 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarity.
5 tn Heb “And the men chased after them [on] the road [leading to] the Jordan to the fords.” The text is written from the perspective of the king’s men. As far as they were concerned, they were chasing the spies.
6 tn Heb “And they shut the gate after – as soon as the ones chasing after them went out.” The expressions “after” and “as soon as” may represent a conflation of alternate readings.
7 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
8 tn Heb “the soles of the feet.”
9 tn Or “Lord”; or “Master.”
10 tn Or “rest in.”
11 tn Heb “the waters of the Jordan, the waters descending from above, will be cut off so that they will stand in one pile.”
12 tn Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
13 tn Heb “the feet of the priests.”
14 tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.
15 tn Heb “just as the
16 tn Heb “turned [the] back.”
17 tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”
18 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
19 tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.
20 tn Heb “in front of.”
21 tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”
22 tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”
23 tn Or “it included in the valley, Beth Haram.”
24 sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2.
25 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
26 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.
27 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
28 sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea.
29 tn Heb “to the tongue of the Salt Sea to the north, to the end of the Jordan to the south.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity (also in the following verse).
30 map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
31 tn Or “set aside.”
32 tn Heb “the sons of Israel heard, saying.”
33 tn Heb “toward the front of.”
34 tn Heb “You have no portion in the
35 tn Heb “fearing.”
36 tn Or “took possession of.”
37 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
38 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”
