Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ¹  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ²  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ³  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁴  in all you do. ⁵ 

Joshua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country ⁶  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” ⁷ 

Joshua 24:3

24:3 but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates ⁸  and brought him into ⁹  the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,

Joshua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ¹⁰  in the land of Egypt ¹¹  and performed these awesome miracles ¹²  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ¹³ 

¹ tn Or “Only be.”

² tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

³ tn Heb “commanded you.”

⁴ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

⁵ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

⁷ tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

¹¹ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Or “through.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

¹⁸ tn Or “great signs.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”