translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “many days.”


text: Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”


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


text: Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”


text: Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”


text: Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.


text: Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.


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


text: Or “take possession of.”


text: Heb “said to.”


text: Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”


text: Heb “with.”


text: Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע ( shava ’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26 .


text: Or “serve.”


text: Heb “hug.”


text: Heb “done.”


text: Heb “not a man has stood before you.”


text: Or “chases a thousand.”


text: Heb “as he said to you.”


text: Heb “Watch carefully yourselves so as to love the Lord your God.”


text: Heb “and hug.”


text: Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”


text: Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”


text: Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”


text: Heb “in.”


text: Heb “thorns in your eyes.”


text: Or “perish.”


text: Heb “go the way of all the earth.”


text: Or “soul.”


text: 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.”


text: Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”


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


text: Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”


text: Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”