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 5:13

Israel Conquers Jericho

5:13 When Joshua was near ²  Jericho, ³  he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. ⁴  Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” ⁵ 

Joshua 7:12

7:12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. ⁶  I will no longer be with you, ⁷  unless you destroy what has contaminated you. ⁸ 

Joshua 10:1

Israel Defeats an Amorite Coalition

10:1 Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem, ⁹  heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho ¹⁰  and its king. ¹¹  He also heard how ¹²  the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.

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. ¹³ 

Joshua 17:18

17:18 The whole hill country ¹⁴  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ¹⁵  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Joshua 18:12

18:12 Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho ¹⁶  on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.

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. ¹⁷  It will be a witness against you if ¹⁸  you deny your God.”

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

² tn Heb “in.”

³ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁴ tn Heb “he lifted up his eyes and looked. And look, a man was standing in front of him, and his sword was drawn in his hand.” The verb הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) invites the reader to view the scene through Joshua’s eyes. By calling the stranger “a man,” the author reflects Joshua’s perspective. The text shortly reveals his true identity (vv. 14-15).

⁵ tn Heb “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

³ tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”

⁴ tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.

⁵ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁶ tn Heb “as he had done to Jericho and to its king, so he did to Ai and to its king.”

⁷ tn Heb “and how.”

⁵ 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.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

⁷ tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

⁷ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.

⁸ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

⁹ tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”