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 2:5
Context2:5 When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. 9 I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”
Joshua 8:13
Context8:13 The army was in position – the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into 10 the middle of the valley.
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 “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”
10 tn Some Hebrew
