Joshua 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 10:25
Context10:25 Then Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! 4 Be strong and brave, for the Lord will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.
Joshua 17:18
Context17:18 The whole hill country 5 will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. 6 You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”
Joshua 23:6
Context23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey 7 all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,
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 Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”
5 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.
6 tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”
7 tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”