Joshua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Joshua 1:17

1:17 Just as we obeyed ⁴  Moses, so we will obey you. But ⁵  may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses!

Joshua 9:20

9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” ⁶ 

Joshua 15:4

15:4 It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, ⁷  and ended at the sea. This was their ⁸  southern border.

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

[1:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “listened to.”

[1:17]  ⁵ tn Or “Only.” Here and in v. 18 this word qualifies what precedes (see also v. 7).

[9:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

[15:4]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[15:4]  ¹¹ tn The translation follows the LXX at this point. The MT reads, “This will be your southern border.”