Discovery BoxJoshua 1:17 
Context1:17 Just as we obeyed 1 Moses, so we will obey you. But 2 may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses!
Joshua 3:4
Context3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. 3 Keep your distance 4 so you can see 5 which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”
Joshua 3:14
Context3:14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went 6 ahead of them.
Joshua 5:9-10
Context5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away 7 the disgrace 8 of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal 9 even to this day.
5:10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho. 10
Joshua 5:15
Context5:15 The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.
Joshua 6:11
Context6:11 So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. 11 Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there. 12
Joshua 7:7
Context7:7 Joshua prayed, 13 “O, Master, Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?
Joshua 9:7-8
Context9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. 14 So how can we make a treaty with you?” 9:8 But they said to Joshua, “We are willing to be your subjects.” 15 So Joshua said to them, “Who are you and where do you come from?”
Joshua 9:21
Context9:21 The leaders then added, 16 “Let them live.” So they became 17 woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. 18
Joshua 10:3
Context10:3 So King Adoni-Zedek of Jerusalem sent this message to King Hoham of Hebron, King Piram of Jarmuth, King Japhia of Lachish, and King Debir of Eglon:
Joshua 11:20
Context11:20 for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. 19
Joshua 14:14
Context14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day 20 because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.
Joshua 18:3
Context18:3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying 21 the land the Lord God of your ancestors 22 has given you?
Joshua 21:3
Context21:3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.
Joshua 21:8
Context21:8 So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.
Joshua 21:13
Context21:13 So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they assigned Hebron (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Libnah,
Joshua 21:43
Context21:43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, 23 and they conquered 24 it and lived in it.
Joshua 23:5
Context23:5 The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, 25 so you can occupy 26 their land as the Lord your God promised 27 you.
1 tn Heb “listened to.”
2 tn Or “Only.” Here and in v. 18 this word qualifies what precedes (see also v. 7).
3 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”
sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length.
4 tn Heb “do not approach it.”
5 tn Heb “know.”
6 tn The verb, though not in the Hebrew, is added for clarification.
7 tn Heb “rolled away.”
8 sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the
9 sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).
10 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
11 tn Heb “and he made the ark of the
12 tn Heb “and they entered the camp and spent the night in the camp.”
13 tn Heb “said.”
14 tn Heb “in our midst.”
15 tn Heb “we are your servants.”
16 tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”
17 tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.
18 tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”
19 tn Heb “for from the
20 tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”
21 tn Heb “How long are you putting off entering and possessing.”
22 tn Or “fathers.”
23 tn Heb “which he had sworn to give to their fathers.”
24 tn Or “possessed.”
25 tn The Hebrew text reads, “from before you.” This has not been included in the translation because it is redundant in English.
26 tn Or “take possession of.”
27 tn Heb “said to.”
