Discovery BoxJoshua 23:3-4
Context23:3 You saw everything the Lord your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the Lord your God fights for you. 1 23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, 2 from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea 3 in the west, including all the nations I defeated. 4
Joshua 23:14
Context23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. 5 You know with all your heart and being 6 that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! 7
Nehemiah 9:22-26
Context9:22 “You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. 8 They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon 9 and the land of King Og of Bashan. 9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess. 9:24 Their descendants 10 entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased. 9:25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full 11 and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. 12 They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
Psalms 78:55-58
Context78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;
he assigned them their tribal allotments 13
and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. 14
78:56 Yet they challenged and defied 15 the sovereign God, 16
and did not obey 17 his commands. 18
78:57 They were unfaithful 19 and acted as treacherously as 20 their ancestors;
they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow. 21
78:58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, 22
and made him jealous with their idols.
[23:3] 1 tn Heb “for the
[23:4] 2 tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”
[23:4] 3 tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.
[23:4] 4 tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.
[23:14] 5 tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”
[23:14] 7 tn Heb “one word from all these words which the
[9:22] 8 tn The words “of the land” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
[9:22] 9 tc Most Hebrew
[9:25] 11 tn Heb “they ate and were sated.” This expression is a hendiadys. The first verb retains its full verbal sense, while the second functions adverbially: “they ate and were filled” = “they ate until they were full.”
[9:26] 12 tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”
[78:55] 13 tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”
[78:55] 14 tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”
[78:56] 15 tn Or “tested and rebelled against.”
[78:56] 16 tn Heb “God, the Most High.”
[78:56] 18 tn Heb “his testimonies” (see Ps 25:10).
[78:57] 19 tn Heb “they turned back.”
[78:57] 20 tn Or “acted treacherously like.”
