Joshua 10:8-10

10:8 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. ¹  Not one of them can resist you.” ²  10:9 Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal. ³  10:10 The Lord routed ⁴  them before Israel. Israel ⁵  thoroughly defeated them ⁶  at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass ⁷  of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

¹ tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

² tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”

³ tn Heb “Joshua came upon them suddenly, all the night he went up from Gilgal.”

⁴ tn Or “caused to panic.”

⁵ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the Lord should be understood as the referent (cf. NASB “and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon”), or even Joshua (cf. NEB “and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon”).

⁶ tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”

⁷ tn Or “ascent.”