Discovery BoxJoshua 3:10
Context3:10 Joshua continued, 1 “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Joshua 9:1
Context9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan 2 – in the hill country, the lowlands, 3 and all along the Mediterranean coast 4 as far as 5 Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –
Joshua 17:16
Context17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country 6 is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” 7
Joshua 17:18
Context17:18 The whole hill country 8 will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. 9 You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”
[9:1] 2 tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”
[9:1] 3 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
[9:1] 4 tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.
[17:16] 3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
[17:16] 4 tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
[17:18] 4 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
