Yosua 2:14

2:14 The men said to her, “If you ¹  die, may we die too! ²  If you do not report what we’ve been up to, ³  then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance ⁴  to you.” ⁵ 

Yosua 7:3

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua, ⁶  “Don’t send the whole army. ⁷  About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. ⁸  Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.” ⁹ 

Yosua 9:11

9:11 Our leaders and all who live in our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them, “We are willing to be your subjects. ¹⁰  Make a treaty with us.”’

Yosua 17:16

17:16 The descendants of Joseph said, “The whole hill country ¹¹  is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.” ¹² 

[2:14]  ¹ tn The second person pronoun is masculine plural, indicating that Rahab’s entire family is in view.

[2:14]  ² tn Heb “Our lives in return for you to die.” If the lives of Rahab’s family are not spared, then the spies will pay for the broken vow with their own lives.

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “If you do not report this matter of ours.”

[2:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “allegiance and faithfulness.” These virtual synonyms are joined in the translation as “unswerving allegiance” to emphasize the degree of promised loyalty.

[2:14]  ⁵ tn The second person pronoun is feminine singular, referring specifically to Rahab.

[7:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

[7:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

[7:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

[9:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your servants.”

[17:16]  ¹¹ 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.

[17:16]  ¹² tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.