12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived 4 in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley 5 and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.
10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon 6 your subjects! 7 Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” 8
23:1 A long time 11 passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, 12 and Joshua was very old. 13
23:1 A long time 14 passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, 15 and Joshua was very old. 16
2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: 17 “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” 18 They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. 19
1 sn Geshurites. Geshur was a city and its surrounding area somewhere northeast of Bashan (cf. Josh 12:5 ; 13:11, 13). One of David’s wives was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur and mother of Absalom (cf. 2 Sam 13:37; 15:8; 1 Chr 3:2).
2 sn Maacathites. These were the people of a territory southwest of Mount Hermon on the Jordan River. The name probably has nothing to do with David’s wife from Geshur (see note on “Geshurites” earlier in this verse).
3 sn Havvoth-Jair. The Hebrew name means “villages of Jair,” the latter being named after a son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh who took the area by conquest.
4 tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”
5 tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.
6 tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”
7 tn Heb “your servants!”
8 tn Heb “have gathered against us.”
9 tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.
10 tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”
11 tn Heb “many days.”
12 tn Heb “the
13 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.
14 tn Heb “many days.”
15 tn Heb “the
16 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.
17 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
18 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
19 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”