Discovery BoxJoshua 3:5 
Context3:5 Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”
Joshua 4:1
Context4:1 When the entire nation was on the other side, 1 the Lord told Joshua,
Joshua 4:13
Context4:13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops 2 marched past the Lord to fight 3 on the plains of Jericho. 4
Joshua 5:2
Context5:2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.” 5
Joshua 6:12
Context6:12 Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord. 6
Joshua 7:10
Context7:10 The Lord responded 7 to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down? 8
Joshua 8:27
Context8:27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua. 9
Joshua 9:14
Context9:14 The men examined 10 some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice. 11
Joshua 11:9
Context11:9 Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned 12 their chariots.
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. 13
Joshua 14:5
Context14:5 The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land. 14
Joshua 14:13
Context14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. 15
Joshua 21:3
Context21:3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.
Joshua 21:8
Context21:8 So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.
1 tn Heb “And when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
2 tn Heb “men equipped for battle.”
3 tn Heb “for war.”
4 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
5 tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.
6 tn Heb “Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests picked up the ark of the
7 tn Heb “said.”
8 tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”
9 tn Heb “according to the word of the
10 tn Heb “took.” This probably means they tasted some of the food to make sure it was stale.
11 tn Heb “but they did not ask the mouth of the
12 tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.
13 tn Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the
14 tn Heb “Just as the
15 tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”
