Joshua 3:15

3:15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface¹ of the water – (the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time)² –

Joshua 6:23

6:23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside³ the Israelite camp.

Joshua 7:3

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua,⁴ “Don’t send the whole army.⁵ About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai.⁶ Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.”⁷

Joshua 8:24

8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men⁸ of Ai who had chased them toward the desert⁹ (they all fell by the sword),¹⁰ all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Joshua 10:39

10:39 They¹¹ captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they¹² left no survivors. They¹³ did to Debir and its king what they¹⁴ had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.¹⁵

Joshua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword,¹⁶ as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

11:14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people¹⁷ and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim,¹⁸ all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.”¹⁹

Joshua 24:27

24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us.²⁰ It will be a witness against you if²¹ you deny your God.”

Joshua 24:31

24:31 Israel worshiped²² the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive.²³ These men had experienced firsthand everything the Lord had done for Israel.²⁴

¹tn Heb “dipped into the edge.”

²tn Heb “and the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest.”

³tn Or “placed them outside.”

⁵tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

⁶tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

⁷tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

⁸tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

⁷tn Heb “residents.”

⁸tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”

⁹tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.

⁹tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

¹⁰tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

¹¹tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

¹²tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

¹³tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹¹tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

¹³tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”

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 words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

¹⁸tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”

¹⁹tn Or “served.”

²⁰tn Heb “all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived him.”

²¹tn Heb “who knew all the work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.”