Joshua 3:7

3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel ¹  so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua 4:23

4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it. ² 

Joshua 6:22

6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house ³  and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” ⁴ 

Joshua 8:31

8:31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. ⁵  They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace. ⁶ 

Joshua 10:1

Israel Defeats an Amorite Coalition

10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, ⁷  heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho ⁸  and its king. ⁹  He also heard how ¹⁰  the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. ¹¹ 

Joshua 10:30

10:30 The Lord handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel ¹²  put the sword to all who lived there; they ¹³  left no survivors. They ¹⁴  did to its king what they ¹⁵  had done to the king of Jericho. ¹⁶ 

Joshua 10:39-40

10:39 They ¹⁷  captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they ¹⁸  left no survivors. They ¹⁹  did to Debir and its king what they ²⁰  had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron. ²¹ 

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ²²  the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ²³  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ²⁴ 

Joshua 11:20

11:20 for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. ²⁵ 

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ²⁶  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ²⁷ 

Joshua 14:7

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ²⁸ 

Joshua 14:12

14:12 Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. ²⁹  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer ³⁰  them, as the Lord promised.”

Joshua 22:4

22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ³¹  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ³²  in your own land ³³  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

¹ tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”

² tn Heb “just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when he dried [it] up before us while we crossed over.”

³ tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”

⁴ tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”

⁴ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones on which no one had wielded iron.” The expression “whole stones” refers to stones in their natural condition, i.e., not carved or shaped artificially with tools (“wielded iron”).

⁵ tn Or “peace offerings.”

⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁶ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁷ tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”

⁸ tn Heb “and how.”

⁶ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

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

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

¹¹ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁸ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

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

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

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

¹² tn 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.

⁹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

¹² tn Heb “for from the Lord it was to harden their heart[s] to meet for the battle with Israel, in order to annihilate them, so that they would receive no mercy, in order annihilate them, as the Lord commanded Moses.”

¹³ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

¹⁴ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

¹⁶ tn Or “will dispossess.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “tents.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”