Joshua 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
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
Joshua 3:3
Context3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God 7 being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here 8 and walk 9 behind it.
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 sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.
8 tn Heb “set out from your place.”
9 tn Or “march.”