Joshua 3:16

3:16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. ¹  It piled up far upstream ²  at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). ³  The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. ⁴ 

Joshua 6:20

6:20 The rams’ horns sounded ⁵  and when the army ⁶  heard the signal, ⁷  they gave a loud battle cry. ⁸  The wall collapsed ⁹  and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 7:3

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua, ¹¹  “Don’t send the whole army. ¹²  About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. ¹³  Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.” ¹⁴ 

Joshua 8:24

8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men ¹⁵  of Ai who had chased them toward the desert ¹⁶  (they all fell by the sword), ¹⁷  all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Joshua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ¹⁸  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ¹⁹  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. ²⁰  They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) ²¹ 

Joshua 13:21

13:21 It encompassed ²²  all the cities of the plain and the whole realm of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon. Moses defeated him and the Midianite leaders Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba (they were subjects of Sihon and lived in his territory). ²³ 

Joshua 17:2

17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land ²⁴  by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

Joshua 19:47

19:47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, ²⁵  so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it ²⁶  Dan after their ancestor. ²⁷ )

Joshua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ²⁸  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ²⁹  and the high priest dies. ³⁰  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ³¹ 

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ³²  is impure, ³³  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ³⁴  where the Lord himself lives, ³⁵  and settle down among us. ³⁶  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ³⁷  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Joshua 22:27

22:27 but as a reminder to us and you, ³⁸  and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence ³⁹  with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. ⁴⁰  Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ ⁴¹ 

Joshua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ⁴²  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ⁴³  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ⁴⁴  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

Joshua 24:7

24:7 Your fathers ⁴⁵  cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, ⁴⁶  and then drowned them in the sea. ⁴⁷  You witnessed with your very own eyes ⁴⁸  what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time. ⁴⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “the waters descending from above stood still.”

² tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”

³ tn Heb “the [waters] descending toward the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) were completely cut off.”

⁴ map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁵ tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.

⁶ tn Heb “the people.”

⁷ tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”

⁸ tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”

⁹ tn Heb “fell in its place.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”

⁹ tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

¹² tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

¹³ tn Heb “residents.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”

¹⁵ tc 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.

¹⁷ tn Heb “your servants.”

¹⁸ tn Or “we were very afraid.”

²¹ sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

²² tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁵ tn The words “it encompassed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁶ tn Heb “princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.”

²⁹ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”

³³ tn Heb “the territory of the sons of Dan went out from them.”

³⁴ tn Heb “Leshem.” The pronoun (“it”) has replaced the name “Leshem” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³⁵ tn Heb “according to the name of their father.”

³⁷ tn Or “live.”

³⁸ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

³⁹ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

⁴⁰ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

⁴¹ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

⁴² sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

⁴³ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

⁴⁴ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

⁴⁵ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

⁴⁶ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

⁴⁵ tn Heb “but it is a witness between us and you.”

⁴⁶ tn Heb “to do the service of the Lord before him.”

⁴⁷ tn Or “peace offerings.”

⁴⁸ tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”

⁴⁹ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

⁵⁰ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

⁵¹ tn Or “perish.”

⁵³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the fathers) has been specified in the translation for clarity (see the previous verse).

⁵⁴ tn Or “put darkness between you and the Egyptians.”

⁵⁵ tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”

⁵⁶ tn Heb “your eyes saw.”

⁵⁷ tn Heb “many days.”