Yosua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Yosua 2:1

Joshua Sends Spies into the Land

2:1 Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: ⁴  “Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” ⁵  They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there. ⁶ 

Yosua 2:10

2:10 For we heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. ⁷ 

Yosua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ⁸  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ⁹ 

Yosua 12:5

12:5 and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead as far as the border of King Sihon of Heshbon.

Yosua 13:27

13:27 It included the valley of Beth Haram, ¹⁰  Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth. ¹¹ 

Yosua 14:3

14:3 Now Moses had assigned land ¹²  to the two-and-a-half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land ¹³  to the Levites. ¹⁴ 

Yosua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ¹⁵  in the land of Egypt ¹⁶  and performed these awesome miracles ¹⁷  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ¹⁸ 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

[2:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”

[2:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”

[2:1]  map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[2:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”

[2:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and what you did to the two Amorite kings who were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, how you annihilated them.”

[5:1]  ⁸ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[13:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “it included in the valley, Beth Haram.”

[13:27]  ¹¹ sn The Sea of Kinnereth is another name for the Sea of Galilee. See the note on the word “Kinnereth” in 11:2.

[14:3]  ¹² tn Or “assigned an inheritance.”

[14:3]  ¹³ tn Or “no inheritance.”

[14:3]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in their midst.”

[24:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

[24:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

[24:17]  ¹⁷ tn Or “great signs.”

[24:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”