Joshua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place ¹  west of Ai, between Bethel ²  and Ai. ³  Joshua spent that night with the army. ⁴ 

Joshua 11:8

11:8 The Lord handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, ⁵  Misrephoth Maim, ⁶  and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ⁷  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ⁸ 

Joshua 15:19

15:19 She answered, “Please give me a special present. ⁹  Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

[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.”

[11:8]  ⁵ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[11:8]  ⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ⁹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[15:19]  ¹³ tn Elsewhere this Hebrew word (בְּרָכָה, bÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).