Joshua 6:20

6:20 The rams’ horns sounded ¹  and when the army ²  heard the signal, ³  they gave a loud battle cry. ⁴  The wall collapsed ⁵  and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. ⁶ 

Joshua 17:2

17:2 The rest of Manasseh’s descendants were also assigned land ⁷  by their clans, including the descendants of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These are the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ⁸  is impure, ⁹  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ¹⁰  where the Lord himself lives, ¹¹  and settle down among us. ¹²  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ¹³  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Joshua 23:13

23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; ¹⁴  they will be a whip that tears ¹⁵  your sides and thorns that blind ¹⁶  your eyes until you disappear ¹⁷  from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

¹ tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.

² tn Heb “the people.”

³ tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”

⁴ tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”

⁵ tn Heb “fell in its place.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”

⁷ tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Manasseh who remained.”

¹³ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

¹⁴ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

¹⁵ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

¹⁸ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

¹⁹ tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

²⁰ tn Heb “in.”

²¹ tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

²² tn Or “perish.”