Discovery BoxJoshua 2:2 
Context2:2 The king of Jericho received this report: “Note well! 1 Israelite men have come here tonight 2 to spy on the land.”
Joshua 6:2
Context6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, 3 along with its king and its warriors.
Joshua 12:4
Context12:4 The territory of King Og of Bashan, one of the few remaining Rephaites, 4 who lived 5 in Ashtaroth and Edrei
Joshua 13:10
Context13:10 and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, and ended at the Ammonite border.
1 tn Or “look.”
2 tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”
3 tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.
4 tn Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.”
sn The Rephaites were apparently an extremely tall ethnic group. See Deut 2:10-11, 20; 3:11.
5 tn Or perhaps “who reigned.”
