Joshua 23:11

23:11 Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God! ¹ 

Joshua 22:8

22:8 saying, “Take home ²  great wealth, a lot of cattle, ³  silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of ⁴  clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers.”

Joshua 8:4

8:4 He told ⁵  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

Joshua 9:9

9:9 They told him, “Your subjects ⁶  have come from a very distant land because of the reputation ⁷  of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt ⁸ 

Joshua 9:13

9:13 These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.”

Joshua 9:22

9:22 ⁹ Joshua summoned the Gibeonites ¹⁰  and said to them, “Why did you trick ¹¹  us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby? ¹² 

Joshua 10:2

10:2 All Jerusalem was terrified ¹³  because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.

Joshua 10:20

10:20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 11:4

11:4 These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots. ¹⁵ 

Joshua 13:1

The Lord Speaks to Joshua

13:1 When Joshua was very old, ¹⁶  the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Joshua 23:6

23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey ¹⁷  all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ¹⁸  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ¹⁹  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ²⁰  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ²¹  in all you do. ²² 

Joshua 3:16

3:16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. ²³  It piled up far upstream ²⁴  at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). ²⁵  The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. ²⁶ 

Joshua 22:5

22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ²⁷  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ²⁸  obey ²⁹  his commands, be loyal to him, ³⁰  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ³¹ 

Joshua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ³²  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ³³  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

[23:11]  ¹ tn Heb “Watch carefully yourselves so as to love the Lord your God.”

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “return to your tents with.”

[22:8]  ³ tn Heb “very many cattle.”

[22:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “very much clothing.”

[8:4]  ³ tn Or “commanded, ordered.”

[9:9]  ⁴ tn Or “servants.”

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “name.”

[9:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”

[9:22]  ⁵ sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

[9:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “them.”

[9:22]  ⁷ tn Or “deceive.”

[9:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “live in our midst?”

[10:2]  ⁶ tn This statement is subordinated to v. 1 in the Hebrew text, which reads literally, “When Adoni-Zedek…they feared greatly.” The subject of the plural verb at the beginning of v. 2 is probably the residents of Jerusalem.

[10:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).

[11:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “They and all their camps with them came out, a people as numerous as the sand which is on the edge of the sea in multitude, and [with] horses and chariots very numerous.”

[13:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.

[23:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”

[1:7]  ¹¹ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ¹² tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[3:16]  ¹² tn Heb “the waters descending from above stood still.”

[3:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”

[3:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the [waters] descending toward the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) were completely cut off.”

[3:16]  ¹⁵ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[22:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”

[22:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ¹⁵ tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ¹⁷ tn Or “soul.”

[9:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your servants.”

[9:24]  ¹⁵ tn Or “we were very afraid.”