Joshua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Joshua 1:2

1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! ⁴  Cross the Jordan River! ⁵  Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. ⁶ 

Joshua 7:6

7:6 Joshua tore his clothes; ⁷  he and the leaders ⁸  of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening ⁹  and threw dirt on their heads. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

⁴ tn Heb “Get up!”

⁵ tn Heb “this Jordan”; the word “River” has been supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in v. 11).

⁶ tc Heb “Cross over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.” The final phrase, “to the children of Israel,” is probably a later scribal addition specifying the identity of “these people/them.”

⁷ sn Tearing one’s clothes was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Gen 37:34; 44:13).

⁸ tn Or “elders.”

⁹ tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.”

¹⁰ sn Throwing dirt on one’s head was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30).