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 5:1
Context5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they 6 crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. 7
Joshua 7:24
Context7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster. 8
Joshua 23:14
Context23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. 9 You know with all your heart and being 10 that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! 11
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 tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”
7 tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”
8 tn Or “Trouble” The name is “Achor” in Hebrew, which means “disaster” or “trouble” (also in v. 26).
9 tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”
10 tn Or “soul.”
11 tn Heb “one word from all these words which the
