Joshua 1:11

1:11 “Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’” ¹ 

Joshua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ²  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ³  and walk ⁴  behind it.

Joshua 3:10

3:10 Joshua continued, ⁵  “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Joshua 4:5

4:5 Joshua told them, “Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

Joshua 7:19

7:19 So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, honor ⁶  the Lord God of Israel and give him praise! Tell me what you did; don’t hide anything from me!”

Joshua 9:9

9:9 They told him, “Your subjects ⁷  have come from a very distant land because of the reputation ⁸  of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt ⁹ 

Joshua 9:18

9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁰  The whole community criticized ¹¹  the leaders,

Joshua 10:19

10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! ¹²  Don’t allow them to retreat to ¹³  their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” ¹⁴ 

Joshua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ¹⁵  the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 14:6

14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. ¹⁶ 

Joshua 14:9

14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: ¹⁷  ‘Surely the land on which you walked ¹⁸  will belong to you and your descendants permanently, ¹⁹  for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’

Joshua 22:16

22:16 “The entire community of the Lord says, ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord. ²⁰ 

Joshua 22:24

22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that ²¹  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ²² 

Joshua 22:33

22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ²³  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ²⁴ 

Joshua 23:7

23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near ²⁵  you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! ²⁶  You must not worship ²⁷  or bow down to them!

Joshua 24:26-27

24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine. 24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. ²⁸  It will be a witness against you if ²⁹  you deny your God.”

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “to enter to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving to you to possess it.”

[3:3]  ² sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

[3:3]  ³ tn Heb “set out from your place.”

[3:3]  ⁴ tn Or “march.”

[3:10]  ³ tn Heb “said.”

[7:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “give glory to.”

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Or “servants.”

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.”

[9:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”

[9:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

[9:18]  ⁷ tn Or “grumbled against.”

[10:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”

[10:19]  ⁸ tn Or “enter into.”

[10:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

[10:40]  ⁸ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[14:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”

[14:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “swore an oath.”

[14:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

[14:9]  ¹² tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”

[22:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the Lord, when you built for yourselves an altar, rebelling today against the Lord?”

[22:24]  ¹² tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”

[22:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”

[22:33]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”

[23:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “with.”

[23:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.

[23:7]  ¹⁶ tn Or “serve.”

[24:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

[24:27]  ¹⁶ tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”