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 2:1
Context2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 6 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 7 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 8
Joshua 2:16
Context2:16 She told them, “Head 9 to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. 10 Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you 11 to return. Then you can be on your way.”
Joshua 7:8
Context7:8 If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated 12 before its enemies?
Joshua 9:19
Context9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of 13 the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt 14 them!
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 “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
7 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
8 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
9 tn Heb “Go.”
10 tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”
11 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
12 tn Heb “turned [the] back.”
13 tn Heb “to them by….”
14 tn Or “touch.”
