21:41 The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites 14 forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.
1 tn Or “Lord”; or “Master.”
2 tn Heb “in the presence of the people.”
3 tn Heb “nation.”
4 tn Heb “Joshua came upon them suddenly, all the night he went up from Gilgal.”
5 tn Heb “and Joshua struck them down, from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen, even to Gibeon.”
6 tn Heb “made war with.”
7 tn Heb “for many days.”
7 tn Or “from Teman.” The phrase is especially problematic if taken with what follows, as the traditional verse division suggests. For further discussion see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 146.
8 tn Heb “all the land of the Canaanites.”
9 tc The reading “Arah” assumes a slight emendation of the Hebrew vowel pointing. The MT reads, “and a cave,” or “and Mearah” (if one understands the word as a proper noun).
10 tn Heb “which belongs to the Sidonians.”
8 tn The total number of names in the list is thirty-six, not twenty-nine. Perhaps (1) some of the names are alternatives (though the text appears to delineate clearly such alternative names here and elsewhere, see vv. 8, 9, 10, 13, 25b) or (2), more likely, later scribes added to a list originally numbering twenty-nine and failed to harmonize the concluding summary statement with the expanded list.
9 tn Heb “and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their towns.”
10 tn Heb “in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel.”
11 tn Heb “to go up against them for battle.”