Joshua 2:11

2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. ¹  For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

Joshua 2:14

2:14 The men said to her, “If you ²  die, may we die too! ³  If you do not report what we’ve been up to, ⁴  then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance ⁵  to you.” ⁶ 

Joshua 4:9

4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones ⁷  in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Joshua 6:5

6:5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, ⁸  have the whole army give a loud battle cry. ⁹  Then the city wall will collapse ¹⁰  and the warriors should charge straight ahead.” ¹¹ 

Joshua 6:20

6:20 The rams’ horns sounded ¹²  and when the army ¹³  heard the signal, ¹⁴  they gave a loud battle cry. ¹⁵  The wall collapsed ¹⁶  and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. ¹⁷ 

Joshua 7:21

7:21 I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, ¹⁸  two hundred silver pieces, ¹⁹  and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”

Joshua 11:17

11:17 from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them. ²⁰ 

[2:11]  ¹ tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”

[2:14]  ² tn The second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that Rahab’s entire family is in view.

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “Our lives in return for you to die.” If the lives of Rahab’s family are not spared, then the spies will pay for the broken vow with their own lives.

[2:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “If you do not report this matter of ours.”

[2:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “allegiance and faithfulness.” These virtual synonyms are joined in the translation as “unswerving allegiance” to emphasize the degree of promised loyalty.

[2:14]  ⁶ tn The second person pronoun is feminine singular, referring specifically to Rahab.

[4:9]  ³ tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it will be at the sounding of the horn, the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn.” The text of Josh 6:5 seems to be unduly repetitive, so for the sake of English style and readability, it is best to streamline the text here. The reading in the Hebrew looks like a conflation of variant readings, with the second (“when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn”) being an interpolation that assimilates the text to verse 20 (“when the army heard the sound of the horn”). Note that the words “when you hear the sound of the ram's horn” do not appear in the LXX of verse 5.

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the people will shout with a loud shout.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “fall in its place.”

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”

[6:20]  ⁵ tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.

[6:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”

[6:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”

[6:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “fell in its place.”

[6:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”

[7:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “Shinar,” a reference to Babylon (cf. Gen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1). Many modern translations retain the Hebrew name “Shinar” (cf. NEB, NRSV) but some use the more familiar “Babylon” (cf. NIV, NLT).

[7:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “shekels.”

[11:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and struck them down and killed them.”