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 3:7
Context3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel 6 so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
Joshua 4:9
Context4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones 7 in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.
Joshua 6:10
Context6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, 8 “Do not give a battle cry 9 or raise your voices; say nothing 10 until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ 11 Then give the battle cry!” 12
Joshua 6:25
Context6:25 Yet Joshua spared 13 Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, 14 and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel 15 to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 16
Joshua 10:12
Context10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 17
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”
Joshua 10:27-28
Context10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. 18 They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) 19
10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. 20
Joshua 10:32
Context10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they 21 captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.
Joshua 14:9
Context14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: 22 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 23 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 24 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’
Joshua 22:17
Context22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. 25
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 Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”
7 tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.
8 tn Heb “the people.”
9 tn Or “the shout.”
10 tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”
11 tn Or “the shout.”
12 tn Or “the shout.”
13 tn Heb “kept alive.”
14 tn Heb the house of her father.”
15 tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”
16 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
17 tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the
18 sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.
19 tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
20 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
21 tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).
22 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
23 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
24 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
25 tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the
