Joshua 17:15

17:15 Joshua replied to them, “Since you have so many people, ¹  go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you.”

Joshua 7:10

7:10 The Lord responded ²  to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down? ³ 

Joshua 17:17-18

17:17 Joshua said to the family ⁴  of Joseph – to both Ephraim and Manasseh: “You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment. 17:18 The whole hill country ⁵  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ⁶  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Joshua 5:2

A New Generation is Circumcised

5:2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.” ⁷ 

Joshua 8:2

8:2 Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho ⁸  and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”

Joshua 9:7

9:7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. ⁹  So how can we make a treaty with you?”

Joshua 15:18

15:18 One time Acsah ¹⁰  came and charmed her father ¹¹  so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Joshua 14:9

14:9 That day Moses made this solemn promise: ¹²  ‘Surely the land on which you walked ¹³  will belong to you and your descendants permanently, ¹⁴  for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’

[17:15]  ¹ tn Heb “If you are a great people.”

[7:10]  ² tn Heb “said.”

[7:10]  ³ tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”

[17:17]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[17:18]  ⁴ 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.

[17:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

[5:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.

[8:2]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[9:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “in our midst.”

[15:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “him.” The referent of the pronoun could be Othniel, in which case the translation would be, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 19. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. This incident is also recorded in Judg 1:14.

[14:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “swore an oath.”

[14:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

[14:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”