Discovery BoxJoshua 1:4 
Context1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) 1 and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea 2 in the west. 3
Joshua 2:5
Context2:5 When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. 4 I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”
Joshua 5:9
Context5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away 5 the disgrace 6 of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal 7 even to this day.
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 8:26
Context8:26 Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai. 8
Joshua 9:12
Context9:12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, 9 but now it is dry and hard. 10
Joshua 9:15
Context9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community 11 sealed it with an oath. 12
Joshua 9:23
Context9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” 13
Joshua 9:27
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.) 14
Joshua 10:23
Context10:23 They did as ordered; 15 they brought the five kings 16 out of the cave to him – the kings of Jerusalem, 17 Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
Joshua 11:1
Context11:1 When King Jabin of Hazor 18 heard the news, he organized a coalition, including 19 King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,
Joshua 13:1
Context13:1 When Joshua was very old, 20 the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.
Joshua 14:7
Context14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. 21
Joshua 15:6
Context15:6 went up to Beth Hoglah, crossed north of Beth Arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.
Joshua 16:5
Context16:5 The territory of the tribe of Ephraim by its clans included the following: 22 The border of their assigned land to the east was Ataroth Addar as far as upper Beth Horon.
Joshua 16:8
Context16:8 From Tappuah it went westward to the Valley of Kanah and ended at the sea. This is the land assigned to the tribe of Ephraim 23 by its clans.
Joshua 18:4
Context18:4 Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me. 24
1 tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium
2 tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.
3 tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”
4 tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”
5 tn Heb “rolled away.”
6 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
7 sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).
8 tn Heb “Joshua did not draw back his hand which held out the curved sword until he had annihilated all the residents of Ai.”
9 tn Heb “in the day we went out to come to you.”
10 tn Or “moldy.”
11 tn Or “assembly.”
12 tn Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”
13 tn Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
14 tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the
15 tn Heb “they did so.”
16 tn Heb “these five kings.”
17 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
18 map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.
19 tn Heb “he sent to.”
20 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.
21 tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”
22 tn Heb “The territory of the sons of Ephraim was for their clans.”
23 tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim.”
24 tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”
