Discovery BoxJoshua 1:5 
Context1:5 No one will be able to resist you 1 all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.
Joshua 1:8-9
Context1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! 2 You must memorize it 3 day and night so you can carefully obey 4 all that is written in it. Then you will prosper 5 and be successful. 6 1:9 I repeat, 7 be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, 8 for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” 9
Joshua 1:13
Context1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. 10 The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. 11
Joshua 2:3
Context2:3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: 12 “Turn over 13 the men who came to you 14 – the ones who came to your house 15 – for they have come to spy on the whole land!”
Joshua 2:11
Context2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. 16 For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!
Joshua 2:16
Context2:16 She told them, “Head 17 to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. 18 Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you 19 to return. Then you can be on your way.”
Joshua 2:19
Context2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! 20 But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. 21
Joshua 3:3
Context3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God 22 being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here 23 and walk 24 behind it.
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 6:10
Context6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, 25 “Do not give a battle cry 26 or raise your voices; say nothing 27 until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ 28 Then give the battle cry!” 29
Joshua 7:9
Context7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us 30 from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” 31
Joshua 8:18
Context8:18 The Lord told Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city 32 over to you.” So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.
Joshua 10:6
Context10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon 33 your subjects! 34 Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” 35
Joshua 10:25
Context10:25 Then Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 36 Be strong and brave, for the Lord will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.
Joshua 22:24-25
Context22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that 37 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 38 22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 39 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 40 the Lord.
Joshua 24:2
Context24:2 Joshua told all the people, “Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘In the distant past your ancestors 41 lived beyond the Euphrates River, 42 including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped 43 other gods,
Joshua 24:27
Context24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. 44 It will be a witness against you if 45 you deny your God.”
1 tn Heb “A man will not stand before you.” The second person pronouns in this verse are singular, indicating Joshua is the addressee.
2 tn Heb “mouth.”
sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.
3 tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).
4 tn Heb “be careful to do.”
5 tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”
6 tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
7 tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.
8 tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”
9 tn Heb “in all which you go.”
10 tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the
sn This command can be found in Deut 3:18-20. In vv. 13-15 Joshua paraphrases the command, as the third person reference to Moses in v. 14 indicates.
11 tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”
sn “This land” refers to the trans-Jordanian lands allotted to these tribes.
12 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
13 tn Heb “bring out.”
14 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, bo’ ’el) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
15 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
16 tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”
17 tn Heb “Go.”
18 tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”
19 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
20 tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”
21 tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”
22 sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.
23 tn Heb “set out from your place.”
24 tn Or “march.”
25 tn Heb “the people.”
26 tn Or “the shout.”
27 tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”
28 tn Or “the shout.”
29 tn Or “the shout.”
30 tn Heb “and cut off our name.”
31 tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”
32 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Ai) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
33 tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”
34 tn Heb “your servants!”
35 tn Heb “have gathered against us.”
36 tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”
37 tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
38 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the
39 tn Heb “You have no portion in the
40 tn Heb “fearing.”
41 tn Heb “your fathers.”
42 tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
43 tn Or “served.”
44 tn Heb “all the words of the
45 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”
