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 1:6

1:6 Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them. ⁴ 

Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ⁵  the disgrace ⁶  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ⁷  even to this day.

Joshua 9:27

9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.) ⁸ 

Joshua 13:13

13:13 But the Israelites did not conquer ⁹  the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

Joshua 16:10

16:10 The Ephraimites ¹⁰  did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

Joshua 22:3

22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites ¹¹  this entire time, ¹²  right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God. ¹³ 

Joshua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 23:9

23:9 “The Lord drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you ¹⁵  to this very day.

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 “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers.

⁷ tn Heb “rolled away.”

⁸ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

⁹ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

¹⁰ tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the Lord to this day at the place which he chooses.”

¹³ tn Or “dispossess.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ephraimites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁹ tn Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.

²⁰ tn Heb “these many days.”

²¹ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”

²² tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

²⁵ tn Heb “not a man has stood before you.”