Joshua 2:22

2:22 They went ¹  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ²  to return. Their pursuers ³  looked all along the way but did not find them. ⁴ 

Joshua 3:1

Israel Crosses the Jordan

3:1 Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan. ⁵  They camped there before crossing the river. ⁶ 

Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ⁷  the disgrace ⁸  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ⁹  even to this day.

Joshua 8:32

8:32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses. ¹⁰ 

Joshua 18:1

The Tribes Meet at Shiloh

18:1 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. ¹¹  Though they had subdued the land, ¹² 

Joshua 18:10

18:10 Joshua drew lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord and divided the land among the Israelites according to their allotted portions.

Joshua 24:26

24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

Joshua 4:8-9

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there. 4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones ¹³  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 7:26

7:26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day ¹⁴ ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. ¹⁵  They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) ¹⁶ 

Joshua 14:12

14:12 Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. ¹⁷  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer ¹⁸  them, as the Lord promised.”

Joshua 17:15

17:15 Joshua replied to them, “Since you have so many people, ¹⁹  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 22:10

Civil War is Averted

22:10 The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar. ²⁰ 

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ²¹  is impure, ²²  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ²³  where the Lord himself lives, ²⁴  and settle down among us. ²⁵  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ²⁶  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “they went and came.”

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

[2:22]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

[3:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “And Joshua arose early in the morning and he and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan.”

[3:1]  ⁶ tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[5:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “rolled away.”

[5:9]  ¹⁰ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

[5:9]  ¹¹ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

[8:32]  ¹³ tn Heb “and he wrote there on the stones a duplicate of the law of Moses which he wrote before the sons of Israel.”

[18:1]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the tent of assembly.”

[18:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the land was subdued before them.”

[4:9]  ²¹ 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.

[7:26]  ²⁵ tc Heb “to this day.” The phrase “to this day” is omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition.

[10:27]  ²⁹ sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

[10:27]  ³⁰ tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[14:12]  ³³ tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

[14:12]  ³⁴ tn Or “will dispossess.”

[17:15]  ³⁷ tn Heb “If you are a great people.”

[22:10]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “and they went to Geliloth of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar near the Jordan, an altar great with respect to appearance.”

[22:19]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:19]  ⁴⁶ 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]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

[22:19]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

[22:19]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

[22:19]  ⁵⁰ 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”).