Yosua 2:15

2:15 Then Rahab ¹  let them down by a rope ²  through the window. (Her ³  house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.) ⁴ 

Yosua 6:1

6:1 Now Jericho ⁵  was shut tightly ⁶  because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. ⁷ 

Yosua 6:7

6:7 And he told ⁸  the army, ⁹  “Move ahead ¹⁰  and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

Yosua 6:11

6:11 So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. ¹¹  Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there. ¹² 

Yosua 6:14

6:14 They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.

Yosua 7:4

7:4 So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

Yosua 8:7-8

8:7 Then you rise up from your hiding place ¹³  and seize ¹⁴  the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you. 8:8 When you capture the city, set it ¹⁵  on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.” ¹⁶ 

Yosua 8:27

8:27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua. ¹⁷ 

Yosua 9:8

9:8 But they said to Joshua, “We are willing to be your subjects.” ¹⁸  So Joshua said to them, “Who are you and where do you come from?”

Yosua 11:13

11:13 But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, ¹⁹  except for Hazor; ²⁰  it was the only one Joshua burned.

Yosua 12:4

12:4 The territory of King Og of Bashan, one of the few remaining Rephaites, ²¹  who lived ²²  in Ashtaroth and Edrei

Yosua 13:17

13:17 Heshbon and all its surrounding cities on the plain, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

Yosua 13:23

13:23 The border of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan. The land allotted to the tribe of Reuben by its clans included these cities and their towns. ²³ 

Yosua 13:31

13:31 Half of Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities in the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were assigned to the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh, to half the descendants of Makir by their clans.

Yosua 15:4

15:4 It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, ²⁴  and ended at the sea. This was their ²⁵  southern border.

Yosua 15:15

15:15 From there he attacked the people of Debir. ²⁶  (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

Yosua 17:8

17:8 (The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)

Yosua 18:28

18:28 Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city ²⁷  (that is, Jerusalem), ²⁸  Gibeah, and Kiriath – a total of fourteen cities and their towns. ²⁹  This was the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin ³⁰  by its clans.

Yosua 19:2

19:2 Their assigned land included ³¹  Beer Sheba, ³²  Moladah,

Yosua 19:15

19:15 Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; ³³  in all they had twelve cities and their towns. ³⁴ 

Yosua 19:22

19:22 Their border touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. They had sixteen cities and their towns.

Yosua 19:35

19:35 The fortified cities included Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,

Yosua 19:38

19:38 Yiron, ³⁵  Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh. In all they had ³⁶  nineteen cities and their towns.

Yosua 20:2

20:2 “Have the Israelites select ³⁷  the cities of refuge ³⁸  that I told you about through Moses.

Yosua 21:3

21:3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

Yosua 21:7-8

21:7 Merari’s descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. 21:8 So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

[2:15]  ¹ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Rahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:15]  ² tc The phrase “by a rope” is omitted in the LXX. It may be a later clarifying addition. If original, the omission in the LXX is likely due to an error of homoioarcton. A scribe’s or translator’s eye could have jumped from the initial ב (bet) in the phrase בַּחֶבֶל (bakhevel, “with a rope”) to the initial ב on the immediately following בְּעַד (bÿ’ad, “through”) and accidentally omitted the intervening letters.

[2:15]  ³ tn Heb “For her house.”

[2:15]  ⁴ tc These explanatory statements are omitted in the LXX and probably represent a later scribal addition.

[6:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”

[6:7]  ⁸ tn An alternative reading is “and they said.” In this case the subject is indefinite and the verb should be translated as passive, “[the army] was told.”

[6:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “pass by.”

[6:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he made the ark of the Lord go around the city, encircling one time.”

[6:11]  ¹² tn Heb “and they entered the camp and spent the night in the camp.”

[8:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the ambush.”

[8:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “take possession of.”

[8:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the city.”

[8:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I have commanded you.”

[8:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.”

[9:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “we are your servants.”

[11:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “standing on their mounds.”

[11:13]  ²⁰ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[12:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.”

[12:4]  sn The Rephaites were apparently an extremely tall ethnic group. See Deut 2:10-11, 20; 3:11.

[12:4]  ²² tn Or perhaps “who reigned.”

[13:23]  ²³ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben by their clans, the cities and their towns.”

[15:4]  ²⁴ tn Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[15:4]  ²⁵ tn The translation follows the LXX at this point. The MT reads, “This will be your southern border.”

[15:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “he went up against the inhabitants of Debir.”

[18:28]  ²⁷ tn The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[18:28]  ²⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[18:28]  ²⁹ tn The structure of this list presents problems. In v. 28 no conjunction appears before “Haeleph” or “Kiriath” in the Hebrew text. This suggests they should be compounded with the preceding names, yielding “Zelah Haeleph” and “Gibeah Kiriath” respectively. This results in a list of only twelve cities, however, while the summary statement (v. 28) gives the number fourteen. One should note, however, that the city lists in chap. 15 do not consistently use the conjunction before the name of each city. See also Josh 19:7, where no conjunction appears before “Rimmon,” but the summary assumes that Ain and Rimmon are distinct.

[18:28]  ³⁰ tn Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin.”

[19:2]  ³¹ tn Heb “and they had in their inheritance.”

[19:2]  ³² tc The MT has “and Sheba” listed after “Beer Sheba.” The LXX suggests “Shema.” The Hebrew text appears to be corrupt, since the form “Sheba” duplicates the latter part of the preceding name. If Sheba (or Shema) is retained, the list numbers fourteen, one more than the number given in the concluding summary (v. 6).

[19:15]  ³³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:15]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem, twelve cities and their towns.” The words “their territory included” and “in all they had” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[19:38]  ³⁵ sn Instead of Yiron some English translations read Iron.

[19:38]  ³⁶ tn The words “in all they had” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[20:2]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”

[20:2]  ³⁸ tn Or “asylum.”