Joshua 24:12

24:12 I sent terror ¹  ahead of you to drive out before you the two ²  Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows. ³ 

Joshua 10:8

10:8 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. ⁴  Not one of them can resist you.” ⁵ 

Joshua 10:10

10:10 The Lord routed ⁶  them before Israel. Israel ⁷  thoroughly defeated them ⁸  at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass ⁹  of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

Joshua 10:12

10:12 The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: ¹⁰ 

“O sun, stand still over Gibeon!

O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!”

Joshua 10:19

10:19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! ¹¹  Don’t allow them to retreat to ¹²  their cities, for the Lord your God is handing them over to you.” ¹³ 

Joshua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ¹⁴  Misrephoth Maim, ¹⁵  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Joshua 24:8

24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered ¹⁶  their land and I destroyed them from before you.

Joshua 24:11

24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. ¹⁷  The leaders ¹⁸  of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.

[24:12]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “the hornet” (so KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV) but the precise meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain (cf. NEB “panic”).

[24:12]  ² tn The LXX has “twelve,” apparently understanding this as a reference to Amorite kings west of the Jordan (see Josh 5:1, rather than the trans-Jordanian Amorite kings Sihon and Og (see Josh 2:10; 9:10).

[24:12]  ³ tn Heb “and it drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not by your sword and not by your bow.” The words “I gave you the victory” are supplied for clarification.

[10:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

[10:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”

[10:10]  ⁷ tn Or “caused to panic.”

[10:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Israel (mentioned at the end of the previous sentence in the verse; cf. NIV, NRSV), but it is also possible that the Lord should be understood as the referent (cf. NASB “and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon”), or even Joshua (cf. NEB “and Joshua defeated them utterly in Gibeon”).

[10:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “struck them down with a great striking down.”

[10:10]  ¹⁰ tn Or “ascent.”

[10:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day the Lord placed the Amorites before the sons of Israel and he said in the eyes of Israel.” It is uncertain whether the phrase “before the sons of Israel” modifies the verb “placed” (as in the present translation, “delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites”) or the verb “spoke” (“Joshua spoke to the Lord before the sons of Israel in the day the Lord delivered over the Amorites”).

[10:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “But [as for] you, don’t stand still, chase after your enemies and attack them from the rear.”

[10:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “enter into.”

[10:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “has given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

[11:8]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:8]  ¹⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[24:8]  ¹⁹ tn Or “took possession of.”

[24:11]  ²² map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[24:11]  ²³ tn Or perhaps, “citizens.”