Yosua 1:6

1:6 Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them. ¹ 

Yosua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place ²  west of Ai, between Bethel ³  and Ai. ⁴  Joshua spent that night with the army. ⁵ 

Yosua 8:35

8:35 Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given ⁶  before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them. ⁷ 

Yosua 9:18-19

9:18 The Israelites did not attack them because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them in the name of the Lord God of Israel. ⁸  The whole community criticized ⁹  the leaders, 9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of ¹⁰  the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt ¹¹  them!

Yosua 14:7

14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy on the land and I brought back to him an honest report. ¹² 

Yosua 15:1

15:1 The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south. ¹³ 

Yosua 16:10

16:10 The Ephraimites ¹⁴  did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.

Yosua 18:5

18:5 Divide it into seven regions. ¹⁵  Judah will stay ¹⁶  in its territory in the south, and the family ¹⁷  of Joseph in its territory in the north.

Yosua 18:9

18:9 The men journeyed ¹⁸  through the land and mapped it and its cities out into seven regions on a scroll. Then they came to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

Yosua 18:21

18:21 These cities belonged to the tribe ¹⁹  of Benjamin by its clans: Jericho, ²⁰  Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

Yosua 19:50

19:50 As the Lord had instructed, they gave him the city he requested – Timnath Serah in the Ephraimite hill country. He built up the city and lived in it.

Yosua 21:5

21:5 The rest of Kohath’s descendants were allotted ten cities from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, and from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Yosua 22:14

22:14 He was accompanied by ten leaders, one from each of the Israelite tribes, each one a family leader among the Israelite clans. ²¹ 

Yosua 22:26

22:26 So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

Yosua 22:32-33

22:32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan. ²²  22:33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. ²³  They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived. ²⁴ 

Yosua 24:8

24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered ²⁵  their land and I destroyed them from before you.

[1:6]  ¹ tn Heb “For you will cause these people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give to them.” The pronoun “them” at the end of the verse refers to either the people or to the fathers.

[8:9]  ² tn Or “the place of ambush.”

[8:9]  ³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”

[8:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”

[8:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “There was not a word from all which Moses commanded that Joshua did not read aloud.”

[8:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “walked in their midst.”

[9:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

[9:18]  ⁹ tn Or “grumbled against.”

[9:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to them by….”

[9:19]  ¹¹ tn Or “touch.”

[14:7]  ¹² tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

[15:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “The lot was to the tribe of the sons of Judah by their clans to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin toward the south, southward.”

[16:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Ephraimites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “portions.”

[18:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “stand.”

[18:5]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “the house.”

[18:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “went and passed through.”

[18:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “the sons,” here referring to the tribe.

[18:21]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[22:14]  ²¹ tn Heb “ten leaders with him, one leader, one leader for a paternal house, for all the tribes of Israel, and each a head of the house of their father, they belong to the clans of Israel.”

[22:32]  ²² tn Heb “and Phinehas…returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel. And they brought back to them a word.”

[22:33]  ²³ tn Heb “and the word was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel and the sons of Israel blessed God.”

[22:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and they did not speak about going up against them for battle to destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad were living.”

[24:8]  ²⁵ tn Or “took possession of.”