Discovery BoxJoshua 1:9 
Context1:9 I repeat, 1 be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, 2 for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” 3
Joshua 1:11
Context1:11 “Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’” 4
Joshua 1:13
Context1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. 5 The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. 6
Joshua 3:3
Context3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God 7 being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here 8 and walk 9 behind it.
Joshua 3:10
Context3:10 Joshua continued, 10 “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 4:5
Context4:5 Joshua told them, “Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.
Joshua 7:19
Context7:19 So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, honor 11 the Lord God of Israel and give him praise! Tell me what you did; don’t hide anything from me!”
Joshua 9:9
Context9:9 They told him, “Your subjects 12 have come from a very distant land because of the reputation 13 of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt 14
Joshua 9:18-19
Context9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. 15 The whole community criticized 16 the leaders, 9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of 17 the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt 18 them!
Joshua 10:19
Context10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! 19 Don’t allow them to retreat to 20 their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” 21
Joshua 10:40
Context10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, 22 the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
Joshua 13:14
Context13:14 However, Moses 23 did not assign land as an inheritance 24 to the Levites; their inheritance 25 is the sacrificial offerings 26 made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed 27 them.
Joshua 14:6
Context14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. 28
Joshua 14:9
Context14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: 29 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 30 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 31 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’
Joshua 22:5
Context22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love 32 the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, 33 obey 34 his commands, be loyal to him, 35 and serve him with all your heart and being!” 36
Joshua 22:16
Context22:16 “The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord. 37
Joshua 22:24
Context22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that 38 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 39
Joshua 22:33
Context22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. 40 They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. 41
Joshua 24:2
Context24:2 Joshua told all the people, “Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘In the distant past your ancestors 42 lived beyond the Euphrates River, 43 including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped 44 other gods,
Joshua 24:17-18
Context24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery 45 in the land of Egypt 46 and performed these awesome miracles 47 before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. 48 24:18 The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship 49 the Lord, for he is our God!”
Joshua 24:26-27
Context24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine. 24:27 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. 50 It will be a witness against you if 51 you deny your God.”
1 tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.
2 tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”
3 tn Heb “in all which you go.”
4 tn Heb “to enter to possess the land which the
5 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.
6 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.
7 sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.
8 tn Heb “set out from your place.”
9 tn Or “march.”
10 tn Heb “said.”
11 tn Heb “give glory to.”
12 tn Or “servants.”
13 tn Heb “name.”
14 tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”
15 tn Heb “by the
16 tn Or “grumbled against.”
17 tn Heb “to them by….”
18 tn Or “touch.”
19 tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”
20 tn Or “enter into.”
21 tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
22 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
23 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
24 tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”
25 tn That is, “their source of food and life.”
26 tn Or “offerings made by fire.”
27 tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).
sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.
28 tn Heb “You know the word which the
sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.
29 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
30 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
31 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
32 tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the
33 tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”
34 tn Or “keep.”
35 tn Heb “hug him.”
36 tn Or “soul.”
37 tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the
38 tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
39 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the
40 tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”
41 tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”
42 tn Heb “your fathers.”
43 tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
44 tn Or “served.”
45 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
46 tn Heb “for the
47 tn Or “great signs.”
48 tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”
49 tn Or “will serve.”
50 tn Heb “all the words of the
51 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”
