Joshua 2:16

2:16 She told them, “Head ¹  to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. ²  Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you ³  to return. Then you can be on your way.”

Joshua 2:22-23

2:22 They went ⁴  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ⁵  to return. Their pursuers ⁶  looked all along the way but did not find them. ⁷  2:23 Then the two men returned – they came down from the hills, crossed the river, ⁸  came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.

Joshua 11:3

11:3 Canaanites came ⁹  from the east and west; Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites from the hill country; and Hivites from below Hermon in the area ¹⁰  of Mizpah.

Joshua 12:5

12:5 and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead as far as the border of King Sihon of Heshbon.

Joshua 13:5

13:5 the territory of Byblos ¹¹  and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ¹² 

Joshua 15:11

15:11 It then extended to the slope of Ekron to the north, went toward Shikkeron, crossed to Mount Baalah, extended to Jabneel, and ended at the sea.

Joshua 16:1

Joseph’s Tribal Lands

16:1 The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho ¹³  to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 21:11

21:11 They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.

Joshua 21:21

21:21 They assigned them Shechem (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer,

Joshua 24:4

24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, ¹⁵  while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Joshua 24:33

24:33 Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land. ¹⁶ 

[2:16]  ¹ tn Heb “Go.”

[2:16]  ² tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”

[2:16]  ³ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.

[2:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “they went and came.”

[2:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

[2:22]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

[2:23]  ⁷ tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, are added for clarification.

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn The verb “came” is supplied in the translation (see v. 4).

[11:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “land.”

[13:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”

[13:5]  ¹⁴ tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”

[16:1]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[16:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “The lot went out to the sons of Joseph from the Jordan [at] Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, the desert going up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.”

[24:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it.”

[24:33]  ²² tn Heb “in Gibeah of Phinehas, his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.”