Joshua 1:5

1:5 No one will be able to resist you ¹  all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.

Joshua 1:18

1:18 Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. ²  But ³  be strong and brave!”

Joshua 2:4

2:4 But the woman hid the two men ⁴  and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine, ⁵  but I didn’t know where they came from.

Joshua 2:22

2:22 They went ⁶  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ⁷  to return. Their pursuers ⁸  looked all along the way but did not find them. ⁹ 

Joshua 5:12

5:12 The manna stopped appearing the day they ate ¹⁰  some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again. ¹¹ 

Joshua 8:17

8:17 No men were left in Ai or Bethel; ¹²  they all went out after Israel. ¹³  They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

Joshua 9:18

9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁴  The whole community criticized ¹⁵  the leaders,

Joshua 9:20

9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” ¹⁶ 

Joshua 9:23

9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” ¹⁷ 

Joshua 10:14

10:14 There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed ¹⁸  a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Joshua 13:13

13:13 But the Israelites did not conquer ¹⁹  the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

Joshua 16:10

16:10 The Ephraimites ²⁰  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 17:12

17:12 But the men ²¹  of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed ²²  to remain in those areas.

Joshua 24:12

24:12 I sent terror ²³  ahead of you to drive out before you the two ²⁴  Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows. ²⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “A man will not stand before you.” The second person pronouns in this verse are singular, indicating Joshua is the addressee.

² tn Heb “any man who rebels against your mouth and does not listen to your words, to all which you command us, will be put to death.”

³ tn Or “Only.” Here and in v. 17 this word qualifies what precedes (see also v. 7).

³ tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p).

⁴ tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.

⁴ tn Heb “they went and came.”

⁵ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

⁶ tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.

⁷ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

⁵ tn Heb “the day after, when they ate.” The present translation assumes this means the day after the Passover, though it is possible it refers to the day after they began eating the land’s produce.

⁶ tn Heb “and the sons of Israel had no more manna.”

⁶ tc The LXX omits the words “or Bethel.”

⁷ tn Heb “who did not go out after Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

⁸ tn Or “grumbled against.”

⁸ tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

⁹ tn Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “listened to the voice of.”

¹¹ tn Or “dispossess.”

¹² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ephraimites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Heb “sons”; “men” has been used in the translation because the context involves the conquest of cities; therefore, warriors (hence males) would be in view here.

¹⁴ tn Or “were determined.”

¹⁴ tn Traditionally, “the hornet” (so KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV) but the precise meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain (cf. NEB “panic”).

¹⁵ tn The LXX has “twelve,” apparently understanding this as a reference to Amorite kings west of the Jordan (see Josh 5:1, rather than the trans-Jordanian Amorite kings Sihon and Og (see Josh 2:10; 9:10).

¹⁶ tn Heb “and it drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not by your sword and not by your bow.” The words “I gave you the victory” are supplied for clarification.