Yosua 9:14

9:14 The men examined ¹  some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice. ² 

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 21:3

21:3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

Yosua 15:13

15:13 Caleb son of Jephunneh was assigned Kiriath Arba (that is Hebron) within the tribe of Judah, according to the Lord’s instructions to Joshua. (Arba was the father of Anak.) ³ 

Yosua 17:4

17:4 They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” ⁴  So Joshua ⁵  assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded. ⁶ 

Yosua 22:9

22:9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, ⁷  which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses.

Yosua 20:1

Israel Designates Cities of Refuge

20:1 The Lord instructed Joshua:

Yosua 4:15

4:15 The Lord told Joshua,

Yosua 3:9

3:9 Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

Yosua 4:1

Israel Commemorates the Crossing

4:1 When the entire nation was on the other side, ⁸  the Lord told Joshua,

Yosua 1:1

The Lord Commissions Joshua

1:1 After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

Yosua 6:2

6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, ⁹  along with its king and its warriors.

Yosua 7:10

7:10 The Lord responded ¹⁰  to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down? ¹¹ 

Yosua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ¹²  the disgrace ¹³  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ¹⁴  even to this day.

Yosua 8:8

8:8 When you capture the city, set it ¹⁵  on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.” ¹⁶ 

Yosua 8:27

8:27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua. ¹⁷ 

Yosua 11:9

11:9 Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned ¹⁸  their chariots.

Yosua 11:15

11:15 Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses. ¹⁹ 

Yosua 13:1

The Lord Speaks to Joshua

13:1 When Joshua was very old, ²⁰  the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Yosua 14:2

14:2 The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses. ²¹ 

Yosua 14:5

14:5 The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land. ²² 

Yosua 22:3

22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites ²³  this entire time, ²⁴  right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God. ²⁵ 

Yosua 14:10

14:10 So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.

Yosua 3:7

3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel ²⁶  so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Yosua 5:2

A New Generation is Circumcised

5:2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.” ²⁷ 

Yosua 8:18

8:18 The Lord told Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city ²⁸  over to you.” So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.

Yosua 10:8

10:8 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. ²⁹  Not one of them can resist you.” ³⁰ 

Yosua 1:3

1:3 I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses. ³¹ 

Yosua 20:2

20:2 “Have the Israelites select ³²  the cities of refuge ³³  that I told you about through Moses.

Yosua 21:8

21:8 So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

Yosua 6:27

6:27 The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land. ³⁴ 

Yosua 7:13

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ³⁵  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ³⁶ 

Yosua 8:1

Israel Conquers Ai

8:1 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! ³⁷  Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! ³⁸  See, I am handing over to you ³⁹  the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

Yosua 24:2

24:2 Joshua told all the people, “Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘In the distant past your ancestors ⁴⁰  lived beyond the Euphrates River, ⁴¹  including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped ⁴²  other gods,

Yosua 14:12

14:12 Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. ⁴³  But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer ⁴⁴  them, as the Lord promised.”

Yosua 1:9

1:9 I repeat, ⁴⁵  be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid and don’t panic, ⁴⁶  for I, the Lord your God, am with you in all you do.” ⁴⁷ 

Yosua 11:20

11:20 for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses. ⁴⁸ 

Yosua 13:14

13:14 However, Moses ⁴⁹  did not assign land as an inheritance ⁵⁰  to the Levites; their inheritance ⁵¹  is the sacrificial offerings ⁵²  made to the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed ⁵³  them.

Yosua 13:33

13:33 However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance ⁵⁴  to the Levites; their inheritance ⁵⁵  is the Lord God of Israel, as he instructed ⁵⁶  them.

Yosua 21:2

21:2 in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”

Yosua 23:5

23:5 The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, ⁵⁷  so you can occupy ⁵⁸  their land as the Lord your God promised ⁵⁹  you.

Yosua 4:8

4:8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Yosua 11:6

11:6 The Lord told Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn ⁶⁰  their chariots.”

Yosua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ⁶¹  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ⁶²  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ⁶³  Then the land was free of war.

Yosua 14:6

14:6 The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea. ⁶⁴ 

Yosua 24:27

24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. ⁶⁵  It will be a witness against you if ⁶⁶  you deny your God.”

Yosua 1:13

1:13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you. ⁶⁷  The Lord your God is giving you a place to settle and is handing this land over to you. ⁶⁸ 

Yosua 8:34

8:34 Then ⁶⁹  Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

Yosua 21:45

21:45 Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel ⁷⁰  was left unfulfilled; every one was realized. ⁷¹ 

Yosua 24:24

24:24 The people said to Joshua, “We will worship ⁷²  the Lord our God and obey him.” ⁷³ 

Yosua 10:40

10:40 Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, ⁷⁴  the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Yosua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ⁷⁵  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ⁷⁶ 

Yosua 22:4-5

22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ⁷⁷  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ⁷⁸  in your own land ⁷⁹  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. 22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ⁸⁰  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ⁸¹  obey ⁸²  his commands, be loyal to him, ⁸³  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ⁸⁴ 

Yosua 23:15

23:15 But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, ⁸⁵  it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment ⁸⁶  until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Yosua 5:8

5:8 When all the men ⁸⁷  had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Yosua 5:14

5:14 He answered, ⁸⁸  “Truly I am the commander of the Lord’s army. ⁸⁹  Now I have arrived!” ⁹⁰  Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground ⁹¹  and asked, “What does my master want to say to his servant?”

Yosua 23:10

23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away, ⁹²  for the Lord your God fights for you ⁹³  as he promised you he would. ⁹⁴ 

Yosua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ⁹⁵  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ⁹⁶  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Yosua 23:14

23:14 “Look, today I am about to die. ⁹⁷  You know with all your heart and being ⁹⁸  that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled! ⁹⁹ 

Yosua 5:6

5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. ¹⁰⁰  For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, ¹⁰¹  a land rich in ¹⁰²  milk and honey.

[9:14]  ¹ tn Heb “took.” This probably means they tasted some of the food to make sure it was stale.

[9:14]  ² tn Heb “but they did not ask the mouth of the Lord.” This refers to seeking the Lord’s will and guidance through an oracle.

[15:13]  ³ tn Heb “To Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah according to the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord to Joshua, Kiriath Arba (the father of Anak), it is Hebron.”

[17:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “The Lord commanded Moses to assign to us an inheritance in the midst of our brothers.” Since Zelophehad had no sons, “brothers” must refer to their uncles, as the next sentence makes clear.

[17:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “he.” The referent is probably Joshua, although Eleazar is mentioned first in the preceding list.

[17:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he assigned to them in accordance with the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord an inheritance in the midst of the brothers of their father.”

[22:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”

[4:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “And when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”

[6:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.

[7:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “said.”

[7:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”

[5:9]  ¹² tn Heb “rolled away.”

[5:9]  ¹³ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

[5:9]  ¹⁴ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

[8:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the city.”

[8:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “I have commanded you.”

[8:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.”

[11:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

[11:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua acted accordingly; he did not turn aside a thing from all which the Lord commanded Moses.”

[13:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.

[14:2]  ²¹ tn Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord had commanded by Moses, to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.”

[14:5]  ²² tn Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”

[22:3]  ²³ tn Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.

[22:3]  ²⁴ tn Heb “these many days.”

[22:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”

[3:7]  ²⁶ tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”

[5:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.

[8:18]  ²⁸ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Ai) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:8]  ²⁹ tn Heb “I have given them into your hand.” The verbal form is a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action.

[10:8]  ³⁰ tn Heb “and not a man [or “one”] of them will stand before you.”

[1:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “Every place on which the sole of your foot walks, to you I have given it, as I said to Moses.” The second person pronouns in vv. 3-4 are plural, indicating that all the people are addressed here. The verbal form נְתַתִּיו (nÿtattiv, “I have given it”) is probably a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action. Another option is to translate, “I have already assigned it.” In this case the verb would probably refer to the Lord’s decree to Abraham that he would give this land to his descendants.

[20:2]  ³² tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”

[20:2]  ³³ tn Or “asylum.”

[6:27]  ³⁴ tn Heb “and the report about him was in all the land.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”) may also be translated “earth.”

[7:13]  ³⁵ tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

[7:13]  ³⁶ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

[8:1]  ³⁷ tn Or perhaps “and don’t get discouraged!”

[8:1]  ³⁸ tn Heb “Take with you all the people of war and arise, go up against Ai!”

[8:1]  ³⁹ tn Heb “I have given into our hand.” The verbal form, a perfect, is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action.

[24:2]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “your fathers.”

[24:2]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:2]  ⁴² tn Or “served.”

[14:12]  ⁴³ tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

[14:12]  ⁴⁴ tn Or “will dispossess.”

[1:9]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “Have I not commanded you?” The rhetorical question emphasizes the importance of the following command by reminding the listener that it is being repeated.

[1:9]  ⁴⁶ tn Or perhaps, “don’t get discouraged!”

[1:9]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[11:20]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “for from the Lord it was to harden their heart[s] to meet for the battle with Israel, in order to annihilate them, so that they would receive no mercy, in order annihilate them, as the Lord commanded Moses.”

[13:14]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:14]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”

[13:14]  ⁵¹ tn That is, “their source of food and life.”

[13:14]  ⁵² tn Or “offerings made by fire.”

[13:14]  ⁵³ tn Or “promised” (Heb “spoke”).

[13:14]  sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.

[13:33]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “Moses did not assign an inheritance.” The word “land” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what the inheritance consisted of.

[13:33]  ⁵⁵ tn That is, “their source of food and life.”

[13:33]  ⁵⁶ tn Or “as he promised”; Heb “as he spoke to.”

[13:33]  sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2.

[23:5]  ⁵⁷ tn The Hebrew text reads, “from before you.” This has not been included in the translation because it is redundant in English.

[23:5]  ⁵⁸ tn Or “take possession of.”

[23:5]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “said to.”

[11:6]  ⁶⁰ tn Heb “burn with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

[11:23]  ⁶¹ tn Heb “took.”

[11:23]  ⁶² tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

[11:23]  ⁶³ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”

[14:6]  ⁶⁴ tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”

[14:6]  sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.

[24:27]  ⁶⁵ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

[24:27]  ⁶⁶ tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”

[1:13]  ⁶⁷ tn Heb “remember the word which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you.”

[1:13]  sn This command can be found in Deut 3:18-20. In vv. 13-15 Joshua paraphrases the command, as the third person reference to Moses in v. 14 indicates.

[1:13]  ⁶⁸ tn Heb “is providing rest for you and is giving to you this land.”

[1:13]  sn “This land” refers to the trans-Jordanian lands allotted to these tribes.

[8:34]  ⁶⁹ tn Or “afterward.”

[21:45]  ⁷⁰ tn Heb “the house of Israel.” Cf. NCV “the Israelites”; TEV “the people of Israel”; CEV, NLT “Israel.”

[21:45]  ⁷¹ tn Heb “not a word from all the good word which the Lord spoke to the house of Israel fell; the whole came to pass.”

[24:24]  ⁷² tn Or “will serve.”

[24:24]  ⁷³ tn Heb “and listen to his voice.”

[10:40]  ⁷⁴ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[13:6]  ⁷⁵ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ⁷⁶ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[22:4]  ⁷⁷ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

[22:4]  ⁷⁸ tn Heb “tents.”

[22:4]  ⁷⁹ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[22:5]  ⁸⁰ tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”

[22:5]  ⁸¹ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ⁸² tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ⁸³ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ⁸⁴ tn Or “soul.”

[23:15]  ⁸⁵ tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

[23:15]  ⁸⁶ tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

[5:8]  ⁸⁷ tn Heb “nation.”

[5:14]  ⁸⁸ tc Heb “He said, “Neither.” An alternative reading is לוֹ (lo, “[He said] to him”; cf. NEB). This reading is supported by many Hebrew mss, as well as the LXX and Syriac versions. The traditional reading of the MT (לֹא, lo’, “no, neither”) is probably the product of aural confusion (the two variant readings sound the same in Hebrew). Although followed by a number of modern translations (cf. NIV, NRSV), this reading is problematic, for the commander of the Lord’s army would hardly have declared himself neutral.

[5:14]  ⁸⁹ sn The Lord’s heavenly army, like an earthly army, has a commander who leads the troops. For the phrase שַׂר־צְבָא (sar-tsÿva’, “army commander”) in the human sphere, see among many other references Gen 21:22, 32; 26:26; Judg 4:2, 7; 1 Sam 12:9.

[5:14]  ⁹⁰ sn The commander’s appearance seems to be for Joshua’s encouragement. Joshua could now lead Israel into battle knowing that the Lord’s invisible army would ensure victory.

[5:14]  ⁹¹ tn Heb “Joshua fell on his face to the ground and bowed down.”

[23:10]  ⁹² tn Or “chases a thousand.”

[23:10]  ⁹³ tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

[23:10]  ⁹⁴ tn Heb “as he said to you.”

[9:24]  ⁹⁵ tn Heb “your servants.”

[9:24]  ⁹⁶ tn Or “we were very afraid.”

[23:14]  ⁹⁷ tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

[23:14]  ⁹⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[23:14]  ⁹⁹ tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”

[5:6]  ¹⁰⁰ tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

[5:6]  ¹⁰¹ tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

[5:6]  ¹⁰² tn Heb “flowing with.”

[5:6]  sn The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (which would support the bees that produced honey).