Joshua 15:9

15:9 It then went from the top of the hill to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, extended to the cities of Mount Ephron, and went to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim).

Joshua 15:60

15:60 Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah – a total of two cities and their towns.

Joshua 18:14

18:14 It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe¹ of Judah. This is the western border.²

Joshua 18:1

The Tribes Meet at Shiloh

18:1 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting.³ Though they had subdued the land,⁴

Joshua 7:1

Achan Sins and is Punished

7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches.⁵ Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi,⁶ son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches.⁷ The Lord was furious with the Israelites.⁸

Joshua 7:1

Achan Sins and is Punished

7:1 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches.⁹ Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi,¹⁰ son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches.¹¹ The Lord was furious with the Israelites.¹²

Joshua 13:5-6

13:5 the territory of Byblos¹³ and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.¹⁴ 13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim,¹⁵ all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.”¹⁶

Joshua 13:2

13:2 This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

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)¹⁷ and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea¹⁸ in the west.¹⁹

¹tn Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.

²tn Or “side.”

³tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

⁴tn Heb “and the land was subdued before them.”

⁵tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”

⁶tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also 1 Chr 7:17, 18).

⁷tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”

⁸tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”

⁹tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”

¹⁰tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also 1 Chr 7:17, 18).

¹¹tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”

¹²tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”

¹³tn Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”

¹⁴tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”

¹⁵tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

¹⁶tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

¹⁷tn 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.

¹⁸tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹⁹tn 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.”