translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.


text: Heb “the Shihor”; the word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the meaning.


text: Heb “in front of.”


text: Heb “it is reckoned to the Canaanites.”


text: Heb “the five lords of the Philistines, the Gazaite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gathite, and the Ekronite, and the Avvites.”


text: Or “from Teman.” The phrase is especially problematic if taken with what follows, as the traditional verse division suggests. For further discussion see T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 146.


text: Heb “all the land of the Canaanites.”


label: NET textual note

text: The reading “Arah” assumes a slight emendation of the Hebrew vowel pointing. The MT reads, “and a cave,” or “and Mearah” (if one understands the word as a proper noun).


text: Heb “which belongs to the Sidonians.” map For location see Map1-A1 ; JP3-F3 ; JP4-F3 .


text: Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”


text: Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא ( lÿvo ’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”


text: The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).


text: Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”


text: Heb “now apportion this land as an inheritance.”


text: The MT reads “with him,” which is problematic, since the reference would be to the other half of the tribe of Manasseh (not the half mentioned in v. 7 ).


text: Heb “received their inheritance, which Moses had assigned to them beyond the Jordan.”


text: The words “their territory started” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: The words “their territory also included” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.” sn The Rephaites were apparently an extremely tall ethnic group. See Deut 2:10-11, 20; 3:11 .


text: Or “dispossessed them.”


text: Or “dispossess.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “did not assign an inheritance.”


text: That is, “their source of food and life.”


text: Or “offerings made by fire.”


text: Or “promised” ( Heb “spoke”). sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2 .


text: Heb “assigned to the sons of Reuben.”


text: Heb “their territory was from.”


text: The words “it encompassed” are supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: Heb “princes of Sihon, inhabitants of the land.”


text: Or “diviner.”


text: Heb “Balaam son of Beor, the omen-reader, the Israelites killed with the sword, along with their slain ones.”


text: Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Reuben by their clans, the cities and their towns.”


text: Heb “assigned to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad.”


text: Heb “and half of the land of the sons of Ammon.”


text: Heb “in front of.”


text: The words “Their territory ran” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied for clarification.


text: Or “it included in the valley, Beth Haram.”


text: Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad by their clans, the cities and their towns.”


text: Heb “assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh, and it belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh.”


text: The words “their territory started at” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied for clarification.


text: Heb “These are [the lands] which Moses gave as an inheritance.”


text: Heb “beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the meaning. map For the location of Jericho see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: Heb “Moses did not assign an inheritance.” The word “land” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what the inheritance consisted of.


text: Or “as he promised”; Heb “as he spoke to.” sn For the background of this observation, see Deut 18:1-2 .