Yosua 1:7-8

1:7 Make sure you are ¹  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ²  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ³  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁴  in all you do. ⁵  1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ⁶  You must memorize it ⁷  day and night so you can carefully obey ⁸  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ⁹  and be successful. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 10:6

10:6 The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon ¹¹  your subjects! ¹²  Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” ¹³ 

Yosua 12:1

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land ¹⁴  on the east side of the Jordan, ¹⁵  from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:

Yosua 13:2

13:2 This is the land that remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,

Yosua 15:10

15:10 It then turned from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, crossed to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is Kesalon), descended to Beth Shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

Yosua 15:21

15:21 These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: ¹⁶  Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Yosua 17:18

17:18 The whole hill country ¹⁷  will be yours; though it is a forest, you can clear it and it will be entirely yours. ¹⁸  You can conquer the Canaanites, though they have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels and are strong.”

Yosua 18:16

18:16 The border then descended to the edge of the hill country near the Valley of Ben Hinnom located in the Valley of the Rephaites to the north. It descended through the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south and then down to En Rogel.

Yosua 20:8

20:8 Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho ¹⁹  they selected ²⁰  Bezer in the desert on the plain belonging to the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the tribe of Manasseh.

Yosua 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. ²¹ 

Yosua 22:24

22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that ²²  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ²³ 

Yosua 23:15

23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ²⁴  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ²⁵  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ² tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[1:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “mouth.”

[1:8]  sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.

[1:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

[1:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

[1:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

[1:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[10:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not let your hand drop from us.”

[10:6]  ¹² tn Heb “your servants!”

[10:6]  ¹³ tn Heb “have gathered against us.”

[12:1]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”

[12:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

[15:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and the cities were at the end of the tribe of the sons of Judah, at the border of Edom, to the south.”

[17:18]  ¹⁷ 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.

[17:18]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and its limits will be yours.”

[20:8]  ¹⁹ map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[20:8]  ²⁰ tn Or “set aside.”

[22:17]  ²¹ 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.”

[22:24]  ²² tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”

[22:24]  ²³ tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”

[23:15]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”