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 8:12-13

8:12 He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel ⁴  and Ai. 8:13 The army was in position – the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into ⁵  the middle of the valley.

Joshua 11:3-4

11:3 Canaanites came ⁶  from the east and west; Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites from the hill country; and Hivites from below Hermon in the area ⁷  of Mizpah. 11:4 These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots. ⁸ 

Joshua 15:4

15:4 It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, ⁹  and ended at the sea. This was their ¹⁰  southern border.

Joshua 15:11

15:11 It then extended to the slope of Ekron to the north, went toward Shikkeron, crossed to Mount Baalah, extended to Jabneel, and ended at the sea.

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 ¹¹  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ¹² 

Joshua 16:6

16:6 It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

Joshua 18:15

18:15 The southern side started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and extended westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

Joshua 19:11

19:11 Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near ¹³  Jokneam.

Joshua 19:29

19:29 It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, ¹⁴  turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Aczib,

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 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁷ tn Some Hebrew mss read, “spent the night in.”

¹⁰ tn The verb “came” is supplied in the translation (see v. 4).

¹¹ tn Or “land.”

¹³ tn Heb “They and all their camps with them came out, a people as numerous as the sand which is on the edge of the sea in multitude, and [with] horses and chariots very numerous.”

¹⁶ tn Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

¹⁷ tn The translation follows the LXX at this point. The MT reads, “This will be your southern border.”

¹⁹ tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

²⁰ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

²² tn Heb “in front of”; perhaps “east of.”

²⁵ map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.