Discovery BoxJoshua 3:4 
Context3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. 1 Keep your distance 2 so you can see 3 which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”
Joshua 6:19
Context6:19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. 4 They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”
Joshua 8:4
Context8:4 He told 5 them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!
Joshua 14:11
Context14:11 Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then. 6
1 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”
sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length.
2 tn Heb “do not approach it.”
3 tn Heb “know.”
4 tn Heb “it is holy to the
5 tn Or “commanded, ordered.”
6 tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”
