Joshua 7:24

7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster. ¹ 

Joshua 8:33

8:33 All the people, ²  rulers, ³  leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. ⁴  Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony. ⁵ 

Joshua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ⁶  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ⁷  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ⁸  is impure, ⁹  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ¹⁰  where the Lord himself lives, ¹¹  and settle down among us. ¹²  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ¹³  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Joshua 22:31

22:31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, ¹⁴  “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not disobeyed the Lord in this. ¹⁵  Now ¹⁶  you have rescued the Israelites from the Lord’s judgment.” ¹⁷ 

Joshua 23:13-14

23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; ¹⁸  they will be a whip that tears ¹⁹  your sides and thorns that blind ²⁰  your eyes until you disappear ²¹  from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ²²  You know with all your heart and being ²³  that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! ²⁴ 

[7:24]  ¹ tn Or “Trouble” The name is “Achor” in Hebrew, which means “disaster” or “trouble” (also in v. 26).

[8:33]  ² tn Heb “All Israel.”

[8:33]  ³ tn Or “elders.”

[8:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “like the resident alien, like the citizen.” The language is idiomatic, meaning that both groups were treated the same, at least in this instance.

[8:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “as Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded to bless the people, Israel, formerly.”

[9:24]  ³ tn Heb “your servants.”

[9:24]  ⁴ tn Or “we were very afraid.”

[22:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:19]  ⁵ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

[22:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

[22:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

[22:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

[22:19]  ⁹ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

[22:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh.”

[22:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “because you were not unfaithful with this unfaithfulness against the Lord.”

[22:31]  ⁷ tn On the use of אָז in a logical sense, see Waltke-O’Connor, Hebrew Syntax, 667.

[22:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “the hand (i.e., power) of the Lord.”

[23:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

[23:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “in.”

[23:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

[23:13]  ⁹ tn Or “perish.”

[23:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”