Joshua 10:17

10:17 Joshua was told, “The five kings have been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

Joshua 2:22-23

2:22 They went ¹  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ²  to return. Their pursuers ³  looked all along the way but did not find them. ⁴  2:23 Then the two men returned – they came down from the hills, crossed the river, ⁵  came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.

Joshua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country ⁶  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” ⁷ 

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “they went and came.”

[2:22]  ² tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

[2:22]  ³ tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.

[2:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

[2:23]  ¹ tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, are added for clarification.

[17:16]  ¹ 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.

[17:16]  ² tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.