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 3:3
Context3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God 5 being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here 6 and walk 7 behind it.
Joshua 3:7
Context3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel 8 so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
Joshua 4:3
Context4:3 Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests 9 stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”
Joshua 4:23
Context4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. 10
Joshua 7:25
Context7:25 Joshua said, “Why have you brought disaster 11 on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.) 12
Joshua 10:19
Context10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! 13 Don’t allow them to retreat to 14 their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” 15
Joshua 13:6
Context13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, 16 all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” 17
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. 18
Joshua 17:18
Context17:18 The whole hill country 19 will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. 20 You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”
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. 21
Joshua 22:18
Context22:18 Now today you dare to turn back 22 from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against 23 the entire community of Israel.
Joshua 22:25
Context22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 24 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 25 the Lord.
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 sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.
6 tn Heb “set out from your place.”
7 tn Or “march.”
8 tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”
9 tn Heb “the feet of the priests.”
10 tn Heb “just as the
11 tn Or “trouble.” The word is “achor” in Hebrew (also in the following clause).
12 tc Heb “and they burned them with fire and they stoned them with stones.” These words are somewhat parenthetical in nature and are omitted in the LXX; they may represent a later scribal addition.
13 tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”
14 tn Or “enter into.”
15 tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
16 tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).
17 tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”
18 tn Heb “You know the word which the
sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.
19 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
20 tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”
21 tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the
22 tn Heb “you are turning back.”
23 tn Or “he will be angry with.”
24 tn Heb “You have no portion in the
25 tn Heb “fearing.”
