Joshua 4:8-9

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there. 4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones 1  in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Joshua 7:26

7:26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day 2 ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. 3  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.) 4 

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. 5  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer 6  them, as the Lord promised.”

Joshua 17:15

17:15 Joshua replied to them, “Since you have so many people, 7  go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you.”

Joshua 22:10

Civil War is Averted

22:10 The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar. 8 

1 tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.

1 tc Heb “to this day.” The phrase “to this day” is omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition.

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

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

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

2 tn Or “will dispossess.”

1 tn Heb “If you are a great people.”

1 tn Heb “and they went to Geliloth of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar near the Jordan, an altar great with respect to appearance.”