Joshua 7:7

7:7 Joshua prayed, ¹  “O, Master, Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?

Joshua 7:11

7:11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! ²  They have taken some of the riches; ³  they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. ⁴ 

Joshua 7:15

7:15 The one caught with the riches ⁵  must be burned up ⁶  along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

Joshua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ⁷  the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, ⁸  as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

11:14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people ⁹  and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Joshua 11:21

11:21 At that time Joshua attacked and eliminated the Anakites from the hill country ¹⁰  – from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and all the hill country of Judah and Israel. ¹¹  Joshua annihilated them and their cities.

Joshua 22:20

22:20 When Achan son of Zerah disobeyed the command about the city’s riches, the entire Israelite community was judged, ¹²  though only one man had sinned. He most certainly died for his sin!’” ¹³ 

Joshua 22:33

22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ¹⁴  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ¹⁵ 

Joshua 24:8

24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered ¹⁶  their land and I destroyed them from before you.

[7:7]  ¹ tn Heb “said.”

[7:11]  ² tn Heb “They have violated my covenant which I commanded them.”

[7:11]  ³ tn Heb “what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “and also they have stolen, and also they have lied, and also they have placed [them] among their items.”

[7:15]  ³ tn Heb “with what was set apart [to the Lord].”

[7:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “burned with fire.”

[10:40]  ⁴ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[11:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”

[11:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”

[11:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”

[11:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”

[22:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “Is it not [true that] Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord] and against all the assembly of Israel there was anger?”

[22:20]  ⁹ tn The second half of the verse reads literally, “and he [was] one man, he did not die for his sin.” There are at least two possible ways to explain this statement: (1) One might interpret the statement to mean that Achan was not the only person who died for his sin. In this case it could be translated, “and he was not the only one to die because of his sin.” (2) Another option, the one reflected in the translation, is to take the words וְהוּא אִישׁ אֶחָד (vÿhu’ ’ish ’ekhad, “and he [was] one man”) as a concessive clause and join it with what precedes. The remaining words (לֹא גָוַע בַּעֲוֹנוֹ, lo’ gava’ ba’avono) must then be taken as a rhetorical question (“Did he not die for his sin?”). Taking the last sentence as interrogative is consistent with the first part of the verse, a rhetorical question introduced with the interrogative particle. The present translation has converted these rhetorical questions into affirmative statements to bring out more clearly the points they are emphasizing. For further discussion, see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 240.

[22:33]  ⁹ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”

[24:8]  ¹⁰ tn Or “took possession of.”