translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: For location see Map1-D2 ; Map2-D3 ; Map3-A2 ; Map4-C1 .


text: Heb “he sent to.”


text: Heb “and to the kings who [are] from the north in.”


text: Heb “Chinneroth,” a city and plain located in the territory of Naphtali in Galilee (BDB 490 s.v. כִּנֶּרֶת , כִּנֲרוֹת ). sn Kinnereth was a city in Galilee located near the Sea of Galilee ( Deut 3:17 ). The surrounding region also became known by this name ( 1 Kgs 15:20 ; cf. Matt 14:34 ), and eventually even the lake itself ( Josh 12:3 ; cf. Luke 5:1 ).


text: The verb “came” is supplied in the translation (see v. 4 ).


text: Or “land.”


text: Heb “They and all their camps with them came out, a people as numerous as the sand which is on the edge of the sea in multitude, and [with] horses and chariots very numerous.”


text: Heb “and came and camped together.”


text: Heb “burn with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.


text: Heb “Joshua and all the people of war with him came upon them at the Waters of Merom suddenly and fell upon them.”


text: For location see Map1-A1 ; JP3-F3 ; JP4-F3 .


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


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


text: Or “formerly.”


text: Heb “and they struck down all life which was in it with the edge of the sword, annihilating.”


text: Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”


text: Heb “standing on their mounds.”


text: Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”


text: 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.”


text: Heb “Joshua took all this land.”


text: Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”


text: Heb “and struck them down and killed them.”


text: Heb “made war with.”


text: Heb “for many days.”


text: The LXX omits this parenthetical note, which may represent a later scribal addition.


text: Heb “the whole they took in battle.”


text: 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.”


text: Heb “went and cut off the Anakites from the hill country.”


text: Heb “and from all the hill country of Israel.”


text: Heb “took.”


text: 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”).


text: Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”