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, ¹  they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

Yosua 9:18

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. ²  The whole community criticized ³  the leaders,

Yosua 10:4

10:4 “Come to my aid ⁴  so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Yosua 10:20

10:20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities. ⁵ 

Yosua 10:26

10:26 Then Joshua executed them ⁶  and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

Yosua 10:33

10:33 Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army ⁷  until no survivors remained.

Yosua 10:35

10:35 That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they ⁸  annihilated it just as they ⁹  had done to Lachish.

Yosua 11:11

11:11 They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ¹⁰  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ¹¹  Hazor.

Yosua 12:6

12:6 Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land ¹²  to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Yosua 13:12

13:12 the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was one of the few remaining Rephaites.) ¹³  Moses defeated them and took their lands. ¹⁴ 

Yosua 15:16

15:16 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

Yosua 20:3

20:3 Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; ¹⁵  these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

[8:21]  ¹ tn Heb “and that the smoke of the city ascended.”

[9:18]  ² tn Heb “by the Lord God of Israel.”

[9:18]  ³ tn Or “grumbled against.”

[10:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Come up to me and help me.”

[10:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “When Joshua and the sons of Israel finished defeating them with a very great defeat until they were destroyed (now the survivors escaped to the fortified cities).” In the Hebrew text the initial temporal clause (“when Joshua…finished”) is subordinated to v. 21 (“the whole army returned”).

[10:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[10:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “people.”

[10:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[11:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they struck down all life which was in it with the edge of the sword, annihilating.”

[11:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

[12:6]  ¹² tn Heb “gave it for a possession.”

[13:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.”

[13:12]  sn The Rephaites were apparently an extremely tall ethnic group. See Deut 2:10-11, 20; 3:11.

[13:12]  ¹⁴ tn Or “dispossessed them.”

[20:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “so that the one who kills, taking life accidentally without knowledge, may flee there.”