Discovery BoxJoshua 1:7 
Context1:7 Make sure you are 1 very strong and brave! Carefully obey 2 all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! 3 Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful 4 in all you do. 5
Joshua 23:16
Context23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, 6 and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, 7 the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear 8 quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”
1 tn Or “Only be.”
2 tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”
3 tn Heb “commanded you.”
4 tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
5 tn Heb “in all which you go.”
6 tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the
7 tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
8 tn Or “perish.”
