Yosua 1:7

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 

Yosua 2:11

2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. ⁶  For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

Yosua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case! ⁷  But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible. ⁸ 

Yosua 4:8

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Yosua 7:13

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ⁹  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ¹⁰ 

Yosua 10:37

10:37 They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they ¹¹  left no survivors. As they ¹²  had done at Eglon, they ¹³  annihilated it and all who lived there.

Yosua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ¹⁴  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ¹⁵  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ¹⁶  Then the land was free of war.

Yosua 23:14

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ¹⁷  You know with all your heart and being ¹⁸  that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! ¹⁹ 

[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.”

[2:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”

[2:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

[2:19]  ⁸ tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

[7:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

[7:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

[10:37]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:37]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:37]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[11:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[23:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ¹⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”