Joshua 4:2
Context4:2 “Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.
Joshua 4:16
Context4:16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws 1 to come up from the Jordan.”
Joshua 4:19-20
Context4:19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month 2 and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. 3 4:20 Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the 4 twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
Joshua 7:4
Context7:4 So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.
Joshua 10:7
Context10:7 So Joshua and his whole army, including the bravest warriors, marched up from Gilgal. 5
Joshua 10:9
Context10:9 Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal. 6
Joshua 15:2
Context15:2 Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea, 7


[4:16] 1 tn Traditionally, “the ark of the testimony,” another name for the ark of the covenant. The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut, “testimony” or “witness”) here refers to the Mosaic covenant and the body of stipulations contained within it (see HALOT 2:791).
[4:19] 1 sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The Passover in Egypt also occurred on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2; 13:4).
[4:19] 2 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
[4:20] 1 tn Heb “these,” referring specifically to the twelve stones mentioned in vv. 3-7.
[10:7] 1 tn Heb “And Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the brave warriors.”
[10:9] 1 tn Heb “Joshua came upon them suddenly, all the night he went up from Gilgal.”
[15:2] 1 tn Heb “Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue that faces to the south.”