Joshua 10:20
Context10:20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. 1
Joshua 13:23
Context13:23 The border of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan. The land allotted to the tribe of Reuben by its clans included these cities and their towns. 2
Joshua 15:63
Context15:63 The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. 3 The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day. 4
Joshua 18:20
Context18:20 The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans. 5
Joshua 19:1
Context19:1 The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans. 6
Joshua 21:10
Context21:10 They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, 7 for the first lot belonged to them.
Joshua 22:15
Context22:15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:
Joshua 22:34
Context22:34 The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, “Surely it is a Reminder to us 8 that the Lord is God.”


[10:20] 1 tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).
[13:23] 2 tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben by their clans, the cities and their towns.”
[15:63] 3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[15:63] 4 sn The statement to this very day reflects the perspective of the author, who must have written prior to David’s conquest of the Jebusites (see 2 Sam 5:6-7).
[18:20] 4 tn Heb “This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by its borders round about, by their clans.”
[19:1] 5 tn Heb “and the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the sons of Simeon by their clans.”
[21:10] 6 tn Heb “and it belonged to the sons of Aaron, from the Kohathite clans, from the sons of Levi.”