Discovery BoxJoshua 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. 1 You must help them
Joshua 2:1
Context2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 2 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 3 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 4
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 5:4
Context5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt. 5
Joshua 6:6
Context6:6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”
Joshua 6:13
Context6:13 The seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord marched along blowing their horns. Armed troops marched ahead of them, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark of the Lord blowing rams’ horns.
Joshua 6:23
Context6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside 6 the Israelite camp.
Joshua 7:2
Context7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho 7 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 8 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.
Joshua 8:22
Context8:22 At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. 9 The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.
Joshua 8:24
Context8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men 10 of Ai who had chased them toward the desert 11 (they all fell by the sword), 12 all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
Joshua 9:27--10:1
Context9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.) 13
10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, 14 heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho 15 and its king. 16 He also heard how 17 the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.
Joshua 10:25
Context10:25 Then Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 18 Be strong and brave, for the Lord will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.
Joshua 11:21
Context11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country 19 – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. 20 Joshua annihilated them and their cities.
Joshua 12:6
Context12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land 21 to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 13:14
Context13:14 However, Moses 22 did not assign land as an inheritance 23 to the Levites; their inheritance 24 is the sacrificial offerings 25 made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed 26 them.
Joshua 17:4
Context17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” 27 So Joshua 28 assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. 29
Joshua 19:9
Context19:9 Simeon’s assigned land was taken from Judah’s allotted portion, for Judah’s territory was too large for them; so Simeon was assigned land within Judah. 30
Joshua 23:7
Context23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near 31 you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! 32 You must not worship 33 or bow down to them!
Joshua 24:11
Context24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. 34 The leaders 35 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 “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”
2 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
3 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
4 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
5 tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”
6 tn Or “placed them outside.”
7 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
8 map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
9 tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”
10 tn Heb “residents.”
11 tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”
12 tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.
13 tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
16 tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”
17 tn Heb “and how.”
18 tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”
19 tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”
20 tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”
21 tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”
22 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
23 tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”
24 tn That is, “their source of food and life.”
25 tn Or “offerings made by fire.”
26 tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).
sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.
27 tn Heb “The
28 tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.
29 tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the
30 tn Heb “from the portion of the sons of Judah was the inheritance of the sons of Simeon for the portion of the sons of Judah was too large for them, and the sons of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.”
31 tn Heb “with.”
32 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
33 tn Or “serve.”
34 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
35 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”
