Joshua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ¹  You must memorize it ²  day and night so you can carefully obey ³  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ⁴  and be successful. ⁵ 

Joshua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, ⁶  “Do not give a battle cry ⁷  or raise your voices; say nothing ⁸  until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ ⁹  Then give the battle cry!” ¹⁰ 

Joshua 10:27-28

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. ¹¹  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.) ¹² 

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. ¹³ 

Joshua 10:30

10:30 The Lord handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel ¹⁴  put the sword to all who lived there; they ¹⁵  left no survivors. They ¹⁶  did to its king what they ¹⁷  had done to the king of Jericho. ¹⁸ 

Joshua 10:32

10:32 The Lord handed Lachish over to Israel and they ¹⁹  captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10:37

10:37 They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they ²⁰  left no survivors. As they ²¹  had done at Eglon, they ²²  annihilated it and all who lived there.

Joshua 10:39

10:39 They ²³  captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they ²⁴  left no survivors. They ²⁵  did to Debir and its king what they ²⁶  had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron. ²⁷ 

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 11:14

11:14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people ²⁹  and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Joshua 15:13

15:13 Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ³⁰ 

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.” ³¹  So Joshua ³²  assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ³³ 

Joshua 19:47

19:47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, ³⁴  so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it ³⁵  Dan after their ancestor. ³⁶ )

Joshua 19:50

19:50 As the Lord had instructed, they gave him the city he requested – Timnath Serah in the Ephraimite hill country. He built up the city and lived in it.

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

[1:8]  ³ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

[6:10]  ⁹ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “the shout.”

[10:27]  ¹¹ sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

[10:27]  ¹² tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[10:28]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[10:30]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ²² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ²³ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ²⁴ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ²⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[10:32]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:37]  ³¹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:37]  ³² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:37]  ³³ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ³⁶ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ³⁷ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ³⁸ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ³⁹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:12]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[11:14]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”

[15:13]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah according to the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath Arba (the father of Anak), it is Hebron.”

[17:4]  ⁵⁶ 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]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.

[17:4]  ⁵⁸ 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.”

[19:47]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “the territory of the sons of Dan went out from them.”

[19:47]  ⁶² tn Heb “Leshem.” The pronoun (“it”) has replaced the name “Leshem” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:47]  ⁶³ tn Heb “according to the name of their father.”