Genesis 13:18

13:18 So Abram moved his tents and went to live ¹  by the oaks ²  of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Genesis 23:2

23:2 Then she ³  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. ⁴ 

Joshua 14:13-15

14:13 Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. ⁵  14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ⁶  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel. 14:15 (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite. ⁷ ) Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 21:13

21:13 So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they assigned Hebron (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Libnah,

Joshua 21:2

21:2 in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”

Joshua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ⁸  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ⁹  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 2:11

2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. ¹¹  For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

[13:18]  ¹ tn Heb “he came and lived.”

[13:18]  ² tn Or “terebinths.”

[23:2]  ³ tn Heb “Sarah.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“she”) for stylistic reasons.

[23:2]  ⁴ sn Mourn…weep. The description here is of standard mourning rites (see K. A. Kitchen, NBD³ 149-50). They would have been carried out in the presence of the corpse, probably in Sarah’s tent. So Abraham came in to mourn; then he rose up to go and bury his dead (v. 3).

[14:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”

[14:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

[14:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”

[2:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

[2:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

[2:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

[2:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”