Joshua 4:13

4:13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops¹ marched past the Lord to fight² on the plains of Jericho.³

Joshua 10:7

10:7 So Joshua and his whole army, including the bravest warriors, marched up from Gilgal.⁴

Joshua 11:18

11:18 Joshua campaigned against⁵ these kings for quite some time.⁶

Joshua 5:4

5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt.⁷

Joshua 6:3

6:3 Have all the warriors march around the city one time;⁸ do this for six days.

Joshua 8:3

8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai.⁹ Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Joshua 8:11

8:11 All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city.¹⁰ They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley.¹¹

Joshua 11:7

11:7 Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.¹²

Joshua 11:19

11:19 No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon);¹³ they had to conquer all of them,¹⁴

Joshua 14:11

14:11 Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.¹⁵

Joshua 14:15

14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.¹⁶) Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 8:1

Israel Conquers Ai

8:1 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic!¹⁷ Take the whole army with you and march against Ai!¹⁸ See, I am handing over to you¹⁹ the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

Joshua 8:14

8:14 When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah.²⁰ But he did not realize²¹ men were hiding behind the city.²²

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.²³

Joshua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered²⁴ the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses,²⁵ and he assigned Israel their tribal portions.²⁶ Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 17:1

17:1 The tribe of Manasseh, Joseph’s firstborn son, was also allotted land.²⁷ The descendants of Makir, Manasseh’s firstborn and the father of Gilead, received land, for they were warriors.²⁸ They were assigned Gilead and Bashan.²⁹

Joshua 5:6

5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off.³⁰ For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them,³¹ a land rich in³² milk and honey.

Joshua 10:24

10:24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he³³ summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, “Come here³⁴ and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up³⁵ and put their feet on their necks.

¹tn Heb “men equipped for battle.”

²tn Heb “for war.”

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

⁴tn Heb “And Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the brave warriors.”

⁷tn Heb “made war with.”

⁸tn Heb “for many days.”

¹⁰tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”

¹³tn Heb “and go around the city, all [you] men of war, encircling the city one time.” The Hebrew verb וְסַבֹּתֶם (vÿsabbotem, “and go around”) is plural, being addressed to the whole army.

¹⁶tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”

¹⁹tn Heb “All the people of war who were with him went up and approached and came opposite the city.”

²⁰tn Heb “and the valley [was] between them and Ai.”

²²tn Heb “Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them at the Waters of Merom suddenly and fell upon them.”

²⁵tn The LXX omits this parenthetical note, which may represent a later scribal addition.

²⁶tn Heb “the whole they took in battle.”

²⁸tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”

³¹tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”

³⁴tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”

³⁵tn Heb “Take with you all the people of war and arise, go up against Ai!”

³⁶tn Heb “I have given into our hand.” The verbal form, a perfect, is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action.

³⁷tn Heb “When the king of Ai saw, the men of Ai hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people at the meeting place before the Arabah.”

³⁸tn Or “know.”

³⁹tn Heb “that (there was) an ambush for him behind the city.”

⁴⁰tn 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.”

⁴³tn Heb “took.”

⁴⁴tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

⁴⁵tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “and the lot belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph.”

⁴⁷tn Heb “to Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war.”

⁴⁸tn Heb “Gilead and Bashan belonged to him.”

⁴⁹tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

⁵⁰tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

⁵¹tn Heb “flowing with.”

⁵²tn Heb “Joshua.” The translation has replaced the proper name with the pronoun (“he”) because a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant according to English style.

⁵³tn Or “Draw near.”

⁵⁴tn Or “drew near.”