Joshua 22:22-24

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Joshua 22:22 sn Israel’s God is here identified with three names: (1) אֵל (ʾel), “El” (or “God”); (2) אֱלֹהִים (ʾelohim), “Elohim” (or “God”), and (3) יְהוָה (y^ehvah), “Yahweh” (or “the Lord”). The name אֵל (ʾel, “El”) is often compounded with titles, for example, El Elyon, “God Most High.”
2. Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “he knows.”
3. Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “if in rebellion or if in unfaithfulness against the Lord.”
4. Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “do not save us.” The verb form is singular, being addressed to either collective Israel or the Lord himself. The LXX translates in the third person.
5. Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”
6. Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “or if to offer up.”
7. Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “or if to make.”
8. Joshua 22:23 tn Or “peace offerings.”
9. Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”
10. Joshua 22:24 tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
11. Joshua 22:24 tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”