Joshua 10:30

10:30 The Lord handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel ¹  put the sword to all who lived there; they ²  left no survivors. They ³  did to its king what they ⁴  had done to the king of Jericho. ⁵ 

Joshua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ⁶  Misrephoth Maim, ⁷  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Joshua 11:1

Israel Defeats a Northern Coalition

11:1 When King Jabin of Hazor ⁸  heard the news, he organized a coalition, including ⁹  King Jobab of Madon, the king of Shimron, the king of Acshaph,

Joshua 14:10

14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

Joshua 15:29

15:29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,

Joshua 16:1

Joseph’s Tribal Lands

16:1 The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho ¹⁰  to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. ¹¹ 

Joshua 21:22

21:22 Kibzaim, and Beth Horon, along with the grazing areas of each – a total of four cities.

Job 18:19

18:19 He has neither children nor descendants ¹²  among his people,

no survivor in those places he once stayed. ¹³ 

Psalms 109:13

109:13 May his descendants ¹⁴  be cut off! ¹⁵ 

May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 14:21-22

14:21 Prepare to execute ¹⁷  his sons

for the sins their ancestors have committed. ¹⁸ 

They must not rise up and take possession of the earth,

or fill the surface of the world with cities.” ¹⁹ 

14:22 “I will rise up against them,”

says the Lord who commands armies.

“I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, ²⁰ 

including the offspring she produces,” ²¹ 

says the Lord.

¹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

³ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

⁵ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁶ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

⁸ map For location see Map1-D2; Map2-D3; Map3-A2; Map4-C1.

⁹ tn Heb “he sent to.”

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

¹¹ tn Heb “The lot went out to the sons of Joseph from the Jordan [at] Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, the desert going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.”

¹² tn The two words נִין (nin, “offspring”) and נֶכֶד (nekhed, “posterity”) are always together and form an alliteration. This is hard to capture in English, but some have tried: Moffatt had “son and scion,” and Tur-Sinai had “breed or brood.” But the words are best simply translated as “lineage and posterity” or as in the NIV “offspring or descendants.”

¹³ tn Heb “in his sojournings.” The verb גּוּר (gur) means “to reside; to sojourn” temporarily, without land rights. Even this word has been selected to stress the temporary nature of his stay on earth.

¹⁴ tn Or “offspring.”

¹⁵ sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.

¹⁶ tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”

¹⁷ tn Or “the place of slaughter for.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “for the sin of their fathers.”

¹⁹ sn J. N. Oswalt (Isaiah [NICOT], 1:320, n. 10) suggests that the garrison cities of the mighty empire are in view here.

²⁰ tn Heb “I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant” (ASV, NAB, and NRSV all similar).

²¹ tn Heb “descendant and child.”