Joshua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ¹  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ²  and walk ³  behind it.

Joshua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, ⁴  “Do not give a battle cry ⁵  or raise your voices; say nothing ⁶  until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ ⁷  Then give the battle cry!” ⁸ 

Joshua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ⁹  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ¹⁰  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ¹¹  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ¹² 

Joshua 8:6

8:6 They will attack ¹³  us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

Joshua 14:7

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 20:8

20:8 Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho ¹⁵  they selected ¹⁶  Bezer in the desert on the plain belonging to the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the tribe of Manasseh.

[3:3]  ¹ sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

[3:3]  ² tn Heb “set out from your place.”

[3:3]  ³ tn Or “march.”

[6:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:10]  ⁵ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ⁸ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “kept alive.”

[6:25]  ⁸ tn Heb the house of her father.”

[6:25]  ⁹ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

[6:25]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[8:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “come out after.”

[14:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

[20:8]  ¹⁶ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[20:8]  ¹⁷ tn Or “set aside.”