Footnotes

1. Joshua 12:1 tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”
2. Joshua 12:1 tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”
3. Joshua 12:1 sn The rift valley is a geographic feature that extends from Mt. Hermon to the Gulf of Aqaba and includes the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River, and the Dead Sea. The section described here extends from the border of Moab, the Arnon which runs into the middle of the Dead Sea, northward up the entire Jordan valley and beyond Galilee to Mt. Hermon at the border of Lebanon.
4. Joshua 12:2 tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”
5. Joshua 12:2 tc The MT reads here “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.