Yosua 2:22-23

2:22 They went ¹  to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them ²  to return. Their pursuers ³  looked all along the way but did not find them. ⁴  2:23 Then the two men returned – they came down from the hills, crossed the river, ⁵  came to Joshua son of Nun, and reported to him all they had discovered.

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 8:21

8:21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, ⁶  they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

Yosua 10:21

10:21 Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. ⁷  No one ⁸  dared threaten the Israelites. ⁹ 

Yosua 21:43

21:43 So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, ¹⁰  and they conquered ¹¹  it and lived in it.

[2:22]  ¹ tn Heb “they went and came.”

[2:22]  ² tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.

[2:22]  ³ tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.

[2:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”

[2:23]  ⁵ tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, are added for clarification.

[8:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and that the smoke of the city ascended.”

[10:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the people returned to the camp, to Joshua [at] Makkedah [in] peace.”

[10:21]  ⁸ tc Heb “No man.” The lamed (ל) prefixed to אִישׁ (’ish, “man”) is probably dittographic (note the immediately preceding יִשְׂרָאֵל [isra’el] which ends in lamed, ל); cf. the LXX.

[10:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “no man sharpened [or perhaps, “pointed”] his tongue against the sons of Israel.” Cf. NEB “not a man of the Israelites suffered so much as a scratch on his tongue,” which understands “sharpened” as “scratched” (referring to a minor wound). Most modern translations understand the Hebrew expression “sharpened his tongue” figuratively for opposition or threats against the Israelites.

[21:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “which he had sworn to give to their fathers.”

[21:43]  ¹¹ tn Or “possessed.”