Joshua 11:15

“Just as YHWH had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he did not remove a word of all that YHWH had commanded Moses.”

Joshua 11:15 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Joshua 11:15, word by word

YHWHיְהוָהyehva

YHWH

The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.

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had commandedצִוָּהtsiva

command

To give an order: "as YHWH had commanded".

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Mosesמֹשֶׁהmoshe

Moses

Moses, the man God called to bring Israel out of Egypt and through whom he gave the Law. His name sounds like "draw out" (Exodus 2:10).

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his servantעַבְדּavd

servant of YHWH

YHWH's servant, like Moses or David.

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Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַyehoshua

Joshua

Joshua, the helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).

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didעָשָׂהasa

do

To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.

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removeהֵסִירhesir

remove

To take away something from where it was: an altar, a load, an office, loyal love.

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a wordדָּבָרdavar

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

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The context

14And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock the sons of Israel plundered for themselves; only all the human beings they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them; they did not leave anything that breathed.

15 · This verse (above)

16So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,

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