Discovery BoxJoshua 1:2 
Context1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! 1 Cross the Jordan River! 2 Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. 3
Joshua 1:6
Context1:6 Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them. 4
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 5 ahead of them.
Joshua 4:19
Context4:19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month 6 and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. 7
Joshua 7:7
Context7:7 Joshua prayed, 8 “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 11:14
Context11:14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people 9 and allowed no one who breathed to live.
Joshua 15:63
Context15:63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. 10 The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day. 11
Joshua 17:17
Context17:17 Joshua said to the family 12 of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.
Joshua 24:22
Context24:22 Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” 13 They replied, “We are witnesses!” 14
1 tn Heb “Get up!”
2 tn Heb “this Jordan”; the word “River” has been supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in v. 11).
3 tc Heb “Cross over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.” The final phrase, “to the children of Israel,” is probably a later scribal addition specifying the identity of “these people/them.”
4 tn Heb “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers.
5 tn The verb, though not in the Hebrew, is added for clarification.
6 sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The Passover in Egypt also occurred on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2; 13:4).
7 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
8 tn Heb “said.”
9 tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”
10 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
11 sn The statement to this very day reflects the perspective of the author, who must have written prior to David’s conquest of the Jebusites (see 2 Sam 5:6-7).
12 tn Heb “house.”
13 tn Heb “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the
14 sn Like witnesses in a court of law, Israel’s solemn vow to worship the Lord will testify against them in the divine court if the nation ever violates its commitment.
