Joshua 23:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Look, today I am about to die. You know with all your heart and being that not even one of all the faithful promises the LORD your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized– not one promise is unfulfilled!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִנֵּ֨ה אָנֹכִ֤י הוֹלֵךְ֙ הַיּ֔וֹם בְּדֶ֖רֶךְ כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וִידַעְתֶּ֞ם בְּכָל־לְבַבְכֶ֣ם וּבְכָל־נַפְשְׁכֶ֗ם כִּ֣י לֹֽא־נָפַל֩ דָּבָ֨ר אֶחָ֜ד מִכֹּ֣ל ׀ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הַטּוֹבִ֗ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֜ר יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם֙ עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם הַכֹּל֙ בָּ֣אוּ לָכֶ֔ם לֹֽא־נָפַ֥ל מִמֶּ֖נּוּ דָּבָ֥ר אֶחָֽד׃

Transliteration

And whinnēh ʾānōkî hôlēk the yôm in derek all the ʾāreṣ and wîdaʿtem in all ləḇaḇkem and in all nap̄šəkem that not nāp̄al dāḇār ʾeḥād from all the dəḇārîm the ṭôḇîm which dibber YHWH ʾĕlōhêkem concerning you the kōl bāʾû to you not nāp̄al from it dāḇār ʾeḥād.

Grammar Details

• *whinnēh*: interjection - behold
• *ʾānōkî*: 1cs independent pronoun - I
• *hôlēk*: qal participle ms - going
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the day
• *derek*: feminine singular construct - way of
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
• *wîdaʿtem*: waw + qal perfect 2mp - and you know
• *ləḇaḇkem*: masculine singular noun + 2mp suffix - your heart
• *nap̄šəkem*: feminine singular noun + 2mp suffix - your soul
• *nāp̄al*: qal perfect 3ms - fell/failed
• *dāḇār*: masculine singular noun - word/thing
• *ʾeḥād*: numeral - one
• *dəḇārîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the words/things
• *ṭôḇîm*: masculine plural adjective with definite article - the good
• *dibber*: piel perfect 3ms - he spoke
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: masculine plural noun + 2mp suffix - your God
• *kōl*: noun with definite article - the all/everything
• *bāʾû*: qal perfect 3cp - they came/happened

Word Meanings

• *whinnēh*: behold/look/see
• *hôlēk hayyôm bəderek kol-hāʾāreṣ*: going today the way of all the earth/about to die/following the path of all humanity
• *nāp̄al*: fell/failed/did not come to pass
• *dāḇār*: word/thing/matter
• *dibber*: spoke/promised/declared
• *kōl bāʾû*: all have come/everything has happened/all have been fulfilled

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 2:2 : 2 “I am about to die. Be strong and become a man!
• Lev 26:3-9 : 3 The Benefits of Obedience“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments, 4 I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit. 5 Threshing season will extend for you until the season for harvesting grapes, and the season for harvesting grapes will extend until sowing season, so you will eat your bread until you are satisfied, and you will live securely in your land. 6 I will grant peace in the land so that you will lie down to sleep without anyone terrifying you. I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword of war will pass through your land. 7 You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword. 8 Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword. 9 I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating stored produce from the previous year and will have to clean out what is stored from the previous year to make room for new. 11 “‘I will put my tabernacle in your midst and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.
• Num 23:19 : 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
• Deut 28:1-9 : 1 The Covenant Blessings“If you indeed obey the LORD your God and are careful to observe all his commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will elevate you above all the nations of the earth. 2 All these blessings will come to you in abundance if you obey the LORD your God: 3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the field. 4 Your children will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks. 5 Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed. 6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. 7 The LORD will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions. 8 The LORD will decree blessing for you with respect to your barns and in everything you do– yes, he will bless you in the land he is giving you. 9 The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him. 10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the LORD, and they will respect you. 11 The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you. 12 The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any. 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do. 14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.
• Josh 21:43-45 : 43 So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it. 44 The LORD made them secure, in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could resist them. The LORD handed all their enemies over to them. 45 Not one of the LORD’s faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.
• 1 Sam 3:19 : 19 Samuel continued to grow, and the LORD was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled.
• 1 Kgs 8:56 : 56 “The LORD is worthy of praise because he has made Israel his people secure just as he promised! Not one of all the faithful promises he made through his servant Moses is left unfulfilled!
• Job 30:23 : 23 I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
• Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
• Eccl 12:5 : 5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–
• Luke 21:33 : 33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
• Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,
• Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
• Exod 23:27-30 : 27 “I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.