Discovery BoxJoshua 2:4 
Context2:4 But the woman hid the two men 1 and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, 2 but I didn’t know where they came from.
Joshua 5:7
Context5:7 He replaced them with their sons, 3 whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.
Joshua 6:15
Context6:15 On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn 4 and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times. 5
Joshua 8:11
Context8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. 6 They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley. 7
Joshua 8:17
Context8:17 No men were left in Ai or Bethel; 8 they all went out after Israel. 9 They left the city wide open and chased Israel.
Joshua 9:4
Context9:4 they did something clever. They collected some provisions 10 and put worn-out sacks on their donkeys, along with worn-out wineskins that were ripped and patched.
Joshua 9:13
Context9:13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”
Joshua 9:16
Context9:16 Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby. 11
Joshua 10:2
Context10:2 All Jerusalem was terrified 12 because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.
Joshua 11:4
Context11:4 These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots. 13
Joshua 14:2
Context14:2 The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses. 14
Joshua 15:21
Context15:21 These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: 15 Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
Joshua 15:63
Context15:63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. 16 The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day. 17
Joshua 16:9
Context16:9 Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns. 18
Joshua 17:6
Context17:6 for the daughters of Manasseh were assigned land among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.
Joshua 18:20
Context18:20 The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans. 19
Joshua 22:30
Context22:30 When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, 20 they were satisfied. 21
1 tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p).
2 tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.
3 tn Heb “their sons he raised up in their place.”
4 tn Heb “On the seventh day they rose early, when the dawn ascended.”
5 tn Heb “and they went around the city according to this manner seven times, only on that day they went around the city seven times.”
6 tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”
7 tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”
8 tc The LXX omits the words “or Bethel.”
map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
9 tn Heb “who did not go out after Israel.”
10 tc Heb “and they went and [?].” The root and meaning of the verb form יִצְטַיָּרוּ (yitstayyaru) are uncertain. The form is most likely a corruption of יִצְטַיָּדוּ (yitstayyadu), read by some Hebrew
11 tn Heb “At the end of three days, after they made the treaty with them, they heard that they were neighbors to them and in their midst they were living.”
12 tn This statement is subordinated to v. 1 in the Hebrew text, which reads literally, “When Adoni-Zedek…they feared greatly.” The subject of the plural verb at the beginning of v. 2 is probably the residents of Jerusalem.
13 tn Heb “They and all their camps with them came out, a people as numerous as the sand which is on the edge of the sea in multitude, and [with] horses and chariots very numerous.”
14 tn Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the
15 tn Heb “and the cities were at the end of the tribe of the sons of Judah, at the border of Edom, to the south.”
16 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
17 sn The statement to this very day reflects the perspective of the author, who must have written prior to David’s conquest of the Jebusites (see 2 Sam 5:6-7).
18 tn Heb “and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their towns.”
19 tn Heb “This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by its borders round about, by their clans.”
20 tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”
21 tn Heb “it was good in their eyes.”
