Joshua 4:8

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Joshua 4:10

4:10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly,

Joshua 5:13

Israel Conquers Jericho

5:13 When Joshua was near ¹  Jericho, ²  he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. ³  Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” ⁴ 

Joshua 5:15

5:15 The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

Joshua 6:25

6:25 Yet Joshua spared ⁵  Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, ⁶  and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel ⁷  to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. ⁸ 

Joshua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place ⁹  west of Ai, between Bethel ¹⁰  and Ai. ¹¹  Joshua spent that night with the army. ¹² 

Joshua 8:18

8:18 The Lord told Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city ¹³  over to you.” So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.

Joshua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ¹⁴ 

Joshua 11:21

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ¹⁵  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ¹⁶  Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

Joshua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ¹⁷  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ¹⁸  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ¹⁹  Then the land was free of war.

Joshua 12:7

12:7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley to Mount Halak on up to Seir. Joshua assigned this territory to the Israelite tribes, ²⁰ 

Joshua 22:7

22:7 (Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, ²¹  he rewarded ²²  them,

Joshua 24:31

24:31 Israel worshiped ²³  the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. ²⁴  These men had experienced firsthand everything the Lord had done for Israel. ²⁵ 

[5:13]  ¹ tn Heb “in.”

[5:13]  ² map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[5:13]  ³ tn Heb “he lifted up his eyes and looked. And look, a man was standing in front of him, and his sword was drawn in his hand.” The verb הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) invites the reader to view the scene through Joshua’s eyes. By calling the stranger “a man,” the author reflects Joshua’s perspective. The text shortly reveals his true identity (vv. 14-15).

[5:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

[6:25]  ¹ tn Heb “kept alive.”

[6:25]  ² tn Heb the house of her father.”

[6:25]  ³ tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”

[6:25]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[8:9]  ¹ tn Or “the place of ambush.”

[8:9]  ² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:9]  ³ tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”

[8:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”

[8:18]  ¹ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Ai) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:15]  ¹ tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

[11:21]  ¹ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

[11:21]  ² tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

[11:23]  ¹ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ² tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ³ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[12:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotted portions.”

[22:7]  ¹ tn Heb “to their tents.”

[22:7]  ² tn Heb “blessed.”

[24:31]  ¹ tn Or “served.”

[24:31]  ² tn Heb “all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived him.”

[24:31]  ³ tn Heb “who knew all the work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.”