10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon 4 your subjects! 5 Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” 6
10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 7
“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!
O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”
12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived 8 in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley 9 and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.
1 tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”
2 tn Heb “said.”
3 tn Heb “and they camped against Gibeon and fought against it.”
4 tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”
5 tn Heb “your servants!”
6 tn Heb “have gathered against us.”
5 tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the
6 tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”
7 tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.
7 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
8 tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”