Joshua 3:10
Context3:10 Joshua continued, 1 “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 10:19
Context10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! 2 Don’t allow them to retreat to 3 their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” 4
Joshua 14:9
Context14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: 5 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 6 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 7 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’
Joshua 23:7
Context23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near 8 you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! 9 You must not worship 10 or bow down to them!
1 tn Heb “said.”
2 tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”
3 tn Or “enter into.”
4 tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
5 tn Heb “swore an oath.”
6 tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”
7 tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”
8 tn Heb “with.”
9 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
10 tn Or “serve.”