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.

Joshua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ⁹  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 3:4

3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. ¹¹  Keep your distance ¹²  so you can see ¹³  which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”

Joshua 17:17-18

17:17 Joshua said to the family ¹⁴  of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment. 17:18 The whole hill country ¹⁵  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ¹⁶  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Joshua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ¹⁷  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ¹⁸  and the high priest dies. ¹⁹  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ²⁰ 

[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.”

[2:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[3:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”

[3:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “do not approach it.”

[3:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “know.”

[17:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[17:18]  ²² tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.

[17:18]  ²³ tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

[20:6]  ²⁵ tn Or “live.”

[20:6]  ²⁶ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

[20:6]  ²⁷ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

[20:6]  ²⁸ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”