InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Jos C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24
Jos 11 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V9 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V19 V20 V21 V22 V23
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Joshua (EXO 17:9)
In this section there is a summary of the towns that the Israelites conquered in the land of Canaan.
Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.
Joshua fought against them for a long time.
The battles against these kings lasted a long time.
Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time: The clause Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time indicates that it took a long time for Joshua and his army to defeat the enemy kings and kill them.Some commentators believe this was about seven years.11:18 Woudstra, p. 196.
This verse adds more information to the summary statements of verses 16–17. In some languages it may be clearer to combine verses 17 and 18. For example:
Joshua was at war with the kings of this territory for a long time, but he captured them all and put them to death. (GNT)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
יָמִ֣ים רַבִּ֗ים
days (Some words not found in UHB: days long he/it_had_made Yəhōshūˊa/(Joshua) DOM all/each/any/every the,kings the=these war )
The author is using the term days by association to mean time, since time is made up of days. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: [For a long time]
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.