Discovery BoxJoshua 8:14
Context8:14 When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. 1 But he did not realize 2 men were hiding behind the city. 3
Joshua 8:24
Context8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the men 4 of Ai who had chased them toward the desert 5 (they all fell by the sword), 6 all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
Joshua 17:16
Context17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country 7 is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” 8
Joshua 22:19
Context22:19 But if your own land 9 is impure, 10 cross over to the Lord’s own land, 11 where the Lord himself lives, 12 and settle down among us. 13 But don’t rebel against the Lord or us 14 by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.
Joshua 23:15
Context23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, 15 it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment 16 until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.
Joshua 24:7
Context24:7 Your fathers 17 cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, 18 and then drowned them in the sea. 19 You witnessed with your very own eyes 20 what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time. 21
[8:14] 1 tn Heb “When the king of Ai saw, the men of Ai hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people at the meeting place before the Arabah.”
[8:14] 3 tn Heb “that (there was) an ambush for him behind the city.”
[8:24] 5 tn Heb “in the field, in the desert in which they chased them.”
[8:24] 6 tc Heb “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed.” The LXX omits the words, “and all of them fell by the edge of the sword.” They may represent a later scribal addition.
[17:16] 7 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
[17:16] 8 tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
[22:19] 10 tn Heb “the land of your possession.”
[22:19] 11 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] 12 tn Heb “the land of the possession of the
[22:19] 13 tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the
[22:19] 14 tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”
[22:19] 15 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
[23:15] 13 tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the
[23:15] 14 tn Heb “so the
[24:7] 16 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the fathers) has been specified in the translation for clarity (see the previous verse).
[24:7] 17 tn Or “put darkness between you and the Egyptians.”
[24:7] 18 tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”
