Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ¹  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ²  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ³  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁴  in all you do. ⁵ 

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.’” ⁶ 

Joshua 1:13

1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. ⁷  The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. ⁸ 

Joshua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ⁹  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ¹⁰  and walk ¹¹  behind it.

Joshua 4:3

4:3 Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests ¹²  stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”

Joshua 4:8

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Joshua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, ¹³  “Do not give a battle cry ¹⁴  or raise your voices; say nothing ¹⁵  until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ ¹⁶  Then give the battle cry!” ¹⁷ 

Joshua 7:11

7:11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! ¹⁸  They have taken some of the riches; ¹⁹  they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. ²⁰ 

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. ²¹  They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace. ²² 

Joshua 8:35

8:35 Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given ²³  before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them. ²⁴ 

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. ²⁵  They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) ²⁶ 

Joshua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ²⁷  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 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ²⁸  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:20

11:20 for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. ²⁹ 

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ³⁰  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ³¹ 

Joshua 17:4

17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” ³²  So Joshua ³³  assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ³⁴ 

Joshua 18:8

18:8 When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, “Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the Lord here in Shiloh.”

Joshua 22:5

22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ³⁵  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ³⁶  obey ³⁷  his commands, be loyal to him, ³⁸  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ³⁹ 

Joshua 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ⁴⁰  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ⁴¹  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ⁴²  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

[1:7]  ¹ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[1:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “to enter to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving to you to possess it.”

[1:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you.”

[1:13]  ¹² tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”

[3:3]  ¹⁶ sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

[3:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “set out from your place.”

[3:3]  ¹⁸ tn Or “march.”

[4:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “the feet of the priests.”

[6:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:10]  ²⁷ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

[6:10]  ²⁹ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ³⁰ tn Or “the shout.”

[7:11]  ³¹ tn Heb “They have violated my covenant which I commanded them.”

[7:11]  ³² tn Heb “what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:11]  ³³ tn Heb “and also they have stolen, and also they have lied, and also they have placed [them] among their items.”

[8:31]  ³⁶ 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]  ³⁷ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[8:35]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “There was not a word from all which Moses commanded that Joshua did not read aloud.”

[8:35]  ⁴² tn Heb “walked in their midst.”

[10:27]  ⁴⁶ sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

[10:27]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[10:40]  ⁵¹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[11:12]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[11:20]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “for from the Lord it was to harden their heart[s] to meet for the battle with Israel, in order to annihilate them, so that they would receive no mercy, in order annihilate them, as the Lord commanded Moses.”

[13:6]  ⁶⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[17:4]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “The Lord commanded Moses to assign to us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” Since Zelophehad had no sons, “brothers” must refer to their uncles, as the next sentence makes clear.

[17:4]  ⁷² tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.

[17:4]  ⁷³ tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.”

[22:5]  ⁷⁶ 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]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ⁷⁸ tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ⁸⁰ tn Or “soul.”

[23:16]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ⁸² tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ⁸³ tn Or “perish.”