Deuteronomy 29:12

29:12 so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹ 

Joshua 9:6

9:6 They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”

Joshua 9:2

9:2 they formed an alliance to fight against Joshua and Israel. ² 

Joshua 11:17

11:17 from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them. ³ 

Joshua 11:2

11:2 and the northern kings who ruled in ⁴  the hill country, the Arabah south of Kinnereth, ⁵  the lowlands, and the heights of Dor to the west.

Joshua 1:10

Joshua Prepares for the Invasion

1:10 Joshua instructed ⁶  the leaders of the people:

Joshua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Joshua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Nehemiah 9:38

The People Pledge to be Faithful

9:38 (10:1) ⁷  “Because of all of this we are entering into a binding covenant ⁸  in written form; ⁹  our leaders, our Levites, and our priests have affixed their names ¹⁰  on the sealed document.”

Nehemiah 10:29-39

10:29 hereby participate with their colleagues the town leaders ¹¹  and enter into a curse and an oath ¹²  to adhere to ¹³  the law of God which was given through Moses the servant of God, and to obey ¹⁴  carefully all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, ¹⁵  along with his ordinances and his statutes.

10:30 “We will not give our daughters in marriage to the neighboring peoples, and we will not take their daughters in marriage for our sons. 10:31 We will not buy ¹⁶  on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan. ¹⁷  10:32 We accept responsibility for fulfilling ¹⁸  the commands to give ¹⁹  one third of a shekel each year for the work of the temple ²⁰  of our God, 10:33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.

10:34 “We – the priests, the Levites, and the people – have cast lots concerning the wood offerings, to bring them to the temple of our God according to our families ²¹  at the designated times year by year to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as is written in the law. 10:35 We also accept responsibility for ²²  bringing the first fruits of our land and the first fruits of every fruit tree year by year to the temple of the LORD. 10:36 We also accept responsibility, as is written in the law, for bringing the firstborn of our sons and our cattle and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks to the temple of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the temple of our God. 10:37 We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce ²³  of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. ²⁴  10:38 A priest of Aaron’s line ²⁵  will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury. 10:39 The Israelites and the Levites will bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil to the storerooms where the utensils of the sanctuary are kept, and where the priests who minister stay, along with the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the temple of our God.”

[29:12]  ¹ tn Heb “for you to pass on into the covenant of the Lord your God and into his oath, which the Lord your God is cutting with you today.”

[9:2]  ² tn Heb “they gathered together to fight against Joshua and Israel [with] one mouth.”

[11:17]  ³ tn Heb “and struck them down and killed them.”

[11:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and to the kings who [are] from the north in.”

[11:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “Chinneroth,” a city and plain located in the territory of Naphtali in Galilee (BDB 490 s.v. כִּנֶּרֶת, כִּנֲרוֹת).

[1:10]  ⁶ tn Or “commanded.”

[9:38]  ⁷ sn Beginning with 9:38, the verse numbers through 10:39 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 9:38 ET = 10:1 HT, 10:1 ET = 10:2 HT, 10:2 ET = 10:3 HT, etc., through 10:39 ET = 10:40 HT. Beginning with 11:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[9:38]  ⁸ tn Heb “we are cutting.”

[9:38]  ⁹ tn Heb “and writing.”

[9:38]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “our leaders, our Levites, and our priests on the sealed document.” The Hebrew text is elliptical here; the words “have affixed their names” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons. Cf. v. 2.

[10:29]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the nobles.”

[10:29]  ¹² tn The expression “a curse and an oath” may be a hendiadys, meaning “an oath with penalties.”

[10:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “to walk in.”

[10:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “keep.” See the note on the word “obey” in Neh 1:5.

[10:29]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew term translated “Lord” here is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).

[10:31]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “take.”

[10:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “debt of every hand,” an idiom referring to the hand that holds legally binding contractual agreements.

[10:32]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “cause to stand on us.”

[10:32]  ¹⁹ tc The MT reads “to give upon us.” However, the term עָלֵינוּ (’alenu, “upon us”) should probably be deleted, following a few medieval Hebrew MSS, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Vulgate.

[10:32]  ²⁰ tn Heb “house” (also in vv. 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39).

[10:34]  ²¹ tn Heb “the house of our fathers.”

[10:35]  ²² tn The words “we accept responsibility” are not included in the Hebrew text, but are inferred from v. 33 (so also in v. 37).

[10:37]  ²³ tn Heb “a tithe of our land.”

[10:37]  ²⁴ tn Heb “of our work.”

[10:38]  ²⁵ tn Heb “And the priest the son of Aaron.”