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 6:18

6:18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster. ⁴ 

Joshua 8:33

8:33 All the people, ⁵  rulers, ⁶  leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. ⁷  Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony. ⁸ 

Joshua 11:18

11:18 Joshua campaigned against ⁹  these kings for quite some time. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 12:3

12:3 His kingdom included ¹¹  the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Kinnereth ¹²  to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), ¹³  including the route to Beth Jeshimoth and the area southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 18:19

18:19 It then crossed to the slope of Beth Hoglah to the north and ended at the northern tip of the Salt Sea ¹⁴  at the mouth of the Jordan River. ¹⁵  This was the 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.”

[6:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to the Lord] so that you might not, as you are setting [it] apart, take some of what is set apart [to the Lord] and make the camp of Israel set apart [to destruction by the Lord] and bring trouble on it.”

[8:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “All Israel.”

[8:33]  ⁸ tn Or “elders.”

[8:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “like the resident alien, like the citizen.” The language is idiomatic, meaning that both groups were treated the same, at least in this instance.

[8:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “as Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded to bless the people, Israel, formerly.”

[11:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “made war with.”

[11:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for many days.”

[12:3]  ¹³ tn The words “his kingdom included” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:3]  ¹⁴ sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2.

[12:3]  ¹⁵ sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea.

[18:19]  ¹⁶ sn The Salt Sea is another name for the Dead Sea.

[18:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “to the tongue of the Salt Sea to the north, to the end of the Jordan to the south.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity (also in the following verse).