Discovery BoxJoshua 1:8 
Context1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! 1 You must memorize it 2 day and night so you can carefully obey 3 all that is written in it. Then you will prosper 4 and be successful. 5
Joshua 1:13-14
Context1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. 6 The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. 7 1:14 Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. 8 You must help them
Joshua 2:9-10
Context2:9 She said to the men, “I know the Lord is handing this land over to you. 9 We are absolutely terrified of you, 10 and all who live in the land are cringing before 11 you. 12 2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 13
Joshua 3:10
Context3:10 Joshua continued, 14 “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Joshua 6:18
Context6:18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster. 15
Joshua 7:12
Context7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. 16 I will no longer be with you, 17 unless you destroy what has contaminated you. 18
Joshua 14:9
Context14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: 19 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 20 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 21 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’
Joshua 23:7
Context23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near 22 you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! 23 You must not worship 24 or bow down to them!
Joshua 24:11
Context24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. 25 The leaders 26 of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.
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. 27 It will be a witness against you if 28 you deny your God.”
1 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.
2 tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).
3 tn Heb “be careful to do.”
4 tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”
5 tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
6 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.
7 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.
8 tn Heb “But you must cross over armed for battle before your brothers, all [you] mighty men of strength.”
9 tn Heb “has given the land to you.” Rahab’s statement uses the Hebrew perfect, suggesting certitude.
10 tn Heb “terror of you has fallen upon us.”
11 tn Or “melting away because of.”
12 tn Both of these statements are actually subordinated to “I know” in the Hebrew text, which reads, “I know that the
13 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
14 tn Heb “said.”
15 tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to the
16 tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the
17 tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.
18 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the
19 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
20 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
21 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
22 tn Heb “with.”
23 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
24 tn Or “serve.”
25 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
26 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”
27 tn Heb “all the words of the
28 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”
