Joshua 5:8

5:8 When all the men ¹  had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Joshua 9:15

9:15 Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community ²  sealed it with an oath. ³ 

Joshua 2:13

2:13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us ⁴  from death.”

Joshua 9:20-21

9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” ⁵  9:21 The leaders then added, ⁶  “Let them live.” So they became ⁷  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. ⁸ 

Joshua 6:17

6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, ⁹  except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies ¹⁰  we sent.

Joshua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ¹¹  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ¹²  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ¹³  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 14:10

14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

¹ tn Heb “nation.”

² tn Or “assembly.”

³ tn Heb “Joshua made peace with them and made a treaty with them to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.”

³ tn Or “our lives.”

⁴ tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

⁵ tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

⁶ tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.

⁷ tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”

⁶ tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”

⁷ tn Heb “messengers.”

⁷ tn Heb “kept alive.”

⁸ tn Heb the house of her father.”

⁹ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

¹⁰ map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.