Joshua 1:2

1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! ¹  Cross the Jordan River! ²  Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them. ³ 

Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ⁴  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ⁵  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ⁶  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁷  in all you do. ⁸ 

Joshua 1:13

1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. ⁹  The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 5:14

5:14 He answered, ¹¹  “Truly I am the commander of the Lord’s army. ¹²  Now I have arrived!” ¹³  Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground ¹⁴  and asked, “What does my master want to say to his servant?”

Joshua 8:31

8:31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. ¹⁵  They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace. ¹⁶ 

Joshua 9:11

9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. ¹⁷  Make a treaty with us.”’

Joshua 10:6

10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon ¹⁸  your subjects! ¹⁹  Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” ²⁰ 

Joshua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ²¹  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ²² 

Joshua 14:7

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ²³ 

Joshua 18:7

18:7 But the Levites will not have an allotted portion among you, for their inheritance is to serve the Lord. ²⁴  Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their allotted land ²⁵  east of the Jordan which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned them.”

Joshua 22:4-5

22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ²⁶  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ²⁷  in your own land ²⁸  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. 22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ²⁹  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ³⁰  obey ³¹  his commands, be loyal to him, ³²  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ³³ 

Joshua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ³⁴  in the land of Egypt ³⁵  and performed these awesome miracles ³⁶  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ³⁷ 

[1:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Get up!”

[1:2]  ² tn Heb “this Jordan”; the word “River” has been supplied in the translation for clarity (likewise in v. 11).

[1:2]  ³ tc Heb “Cross over this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land that I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.” The final phrase, “to the children of Israel,” is probably a later scribal addition specifying the identity of “these people/them.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[1:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you.”

[1:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”

[5:14]  ¹⁰ tc Heb “He said, “Neither.” An alternative reading is לוֹ (lo, “[He said] to him”; cf. NEB). This reading is supported by many Hebrew mss, as well as the LXX and Syriac versions. The traditional reading of the MT (לֹא, lo’, “no, neither”) is probably the product of aural confusion (the two variant readings sound the same in Hebrew). Although followed by a number of modern translations (cf. NIV, NRSV), this reading is problematic, for the commander of the Lord’s army would hardly have declared himself neutral.

[5:14]  ¹¹ sn The Lord’s heavenly army, like an earthly army, has a commander who leads the troops. For the phrase שַׂר־צְבָא (sar-tsÿva’, “army commander”) in the human sphere, see among many other references Gen 21:22, 32; 26:26; Judg 4:2, 7; 1 Sam 12:9.

[5:14]  ¹² sn The commander’s appearance seems to be for Joshua’s encouragement. Joshua could now lead Israel into battle knowing that the Lord’s invisible army would ensure victory.

[5:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “Joshua fell on his face to the ground and bowed down.”

[8:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones on which no one had wielded iron.” The expression “whole stones” refers to stones in their natural condition, i.e., not carved or shaped artificially with tools (“wielded iron”).

[8:31]  ¹⁴ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[9:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your servants.”

[10:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”

[10:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “your servants!”

[10:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “have gathered against us.”

[11:12]  ²² tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[11:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

[14:7]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

[18:7]  ³¹ tn Or “the priesthood of the Lord.”

[18:7]  ³² tn Or “inheritance.”

[22:4]  ³⁴ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

[22:4]  ³⁵ tn Heb “tents.”

[22:4]  ³⁶ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:5]  ³⁷ tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”

[22:5]  ³⁸ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ³⁹ tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ⁴¹ tn Or “soul.”

[24:17]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

[24:17]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

[24:17]  ⁴² tn Or “great signs.”

[24:17]  ⁴³ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”