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 15:12

15:12 The western border was the Mediterranean Sea. ⁴  These were the borders of the tribe of Judah and its clans. ⁵ 

Joshua 7:9

7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ⁶  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ⁷ 

Joshua 14:15

14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite. ⁸ ) Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 15:47

15:47 Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ⁹  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 9:1

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ¹¹  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ¹²  and all along the Mediterranean coast ¹³  as far as ¹⁴  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –

Joshua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ¹⁵  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ¹⁶  and the high priest dies. ¹⁷  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ¹⁸ 

Joshua 23:4

23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, ¹⁹  from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea ²⁰  in the west, including all the nations I defeated. ²¹ 

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 “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

⁵ tn Heb “this was the border of the sons of Judah round about, by their clans.”

⁷ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

⁸ tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

¹⁰ tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”

¹³ tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

¹⁴ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹⁶ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

¹⁷ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹⁹ tn Heb “in front of.”

¹⁹ tn Or “live.”

²⁰ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

²¹ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

²² tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

²² tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

²³ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

²⁴ tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.