Joshua 7:9

7:9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us ¹  from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” ² 

Joshua 8:4

8:4 He told ³  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

Joshua 8:6

8:6 They will attack ⁴  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 8:16

8:16 All the reinforcements ⁵  in Ai ⁶  were ordered ⁷  to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

Joshua 9:22-23

9:22 ⁸ Joshua summoned the Gibeonites ⁹  and said to them, “Why did you trick ¹⁰  us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby? ¹¹  9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.” ¹² 

Joshua 10:2

10:2 All Jerusalem was terrified ¹³  because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.

Joshua 10:22

10:22 Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings ¹⁴  out of the cave to me.”

Joshua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ¹⁵ 

Joshua 23:6

23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey ¹⁶  all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

Joshua 23:10

23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away, ¹⁷  for the Lord your God fights for you ¹⁸  as he promised you he would. ¹⁹ 

[7:9]  ¹ tn Heb “and cut off our name.”

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”

[8:4]  ³ tn Or “commanded, ordered.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “come out after.”

[8:16]  ⁷ tn Heb “All the people.”

[8:16]  ⁸ tc Some textual witnesses read “the city.”

[8:16]  ⁹ tn Or “were summoned”; or “were mustered.”

[9:22]  ⁹ sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

[9:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “them.”

[9:22]  ¹¹ tn Or “deceive.”

[9:22]  ¹² tn Heb “live in our midst?”

[9:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

[10:2]  ¹³ tn This statement is subordinated to v. 1 in the Hebrew text, which reads literally, “When Adoni-Zedek…they feared greatly.” The subject of the plural verb at the beginning of v. 2 is probably the residents of Jerusalem.

[10:22]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “these five kings.”

[22:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

[23:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”

[23:10]  ²¹ tn Or “chases a thousand.”

[23:10]  ²² tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

[23:10]  ²³ tn Heb “as he said to you.”