Joshua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ¹  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ² 

Joshua 3:16

3:16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. ³  It piled up far upstream ⁴  at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). ⁵  The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. ⁶ 

Joshua 6:5

6:5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, ⁷  have the whole army give a loud battle cry. ⁸  Then the city wall will collapse ⁹  and the warriors should charge straight ahead.” ¹⁰ 

Joshua 8:24

8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men ¹¹  of Ai who had chased them toward the desert ¹²  (they all fell by the sword), ¹³  all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Joshua 10:13

10:13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. ¹⁴  The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. ¹⁵ 

Joshua 10:30

10:30 The Lord handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel ¹⁶  put the sword to all who lived there; they ¹⁷  left no survivors. They ¹⁸  did to its king what they ¹⁹  had done to the king of Jericho. ²⁰ 

Joshua 10:39

10:39 They ²¹  captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they ²²  left no survivors. They ²³  did to Debir and its king what they ²⁴  had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron. ²⁵ 

Joshua 12:2

12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived ²⁶  in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley ²⁷  and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

Joshua 18:14

18:14 It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe ²⁸  of Judah. This is the western border. ²⁹ 

Joshua 20:9

20:9 These were the cities of refuge ³⁰  appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by ³¹  the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly. ³² 

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ³³  is impure, ³⁴  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ³⁵  where the Lord himself lives, ³⁶  and settle down among us. ³⁷  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ³⁸  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Joshua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ³⁹  in the land of Egypt ⁴⁰  and performed these awesome miracles ⁴¹  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ⁴² 

[2:19]  ¹ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ² tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[3:16]  ³ tn Heb “the waters descending from above stood still.”

[3:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”

[3:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “the [waters] descending toward the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) were completely cut off.”

[3:16]  ⁶ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

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

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “fall in its place.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”

[8:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “residents.”

[8:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”

[8:24]  ⁹ tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.

[10:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.

[10:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”

[10:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:30]  ¹⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[10:39]  ¹³ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:2]  ¹⁵ tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”

[12:2]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.

[18:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.

[18:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or “side.”

[20:9]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew text reads simply “the cities.” The words “for refuge” are supplied for clarification.

[20:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and not die by the hand of.”

[20:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly.” The words “at least” are supplied for clarification.

[22:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:19]  ²² sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

[22:19]  ²³ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

[22:19]  ²⁴ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

[22:19]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

[22:19]  ²⁶ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

[24:17]  ²³ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

[24:17]  ²⁴ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

[24:17]  ²⁵ tn Or “great signs.”

[24:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”