Joshua 24:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² While your army traveled forward, I sent the Hornet [75] ahead of them. The hornet made the people leave. So you took the land [76] without using your swords and bows.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² I sent the hornet [that is, the terror of you] before you, which drove the two kings of the Amorites out before you; but it was not by your sword or by your bow. [Exod. 23:27, 28; Deut. 2:25; 7:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Common English Bible

¹² I sent the hornet before you. It drove them out before you and did the same to the two kings of the Amorites. It wasn’t your sword or bow that did this.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And I sent wasps before you. And I drove them from their places, the two kings of the Amorites, but not by your sword, and not by your bow.

Joshua 24:12 Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:20

“The Lord your God will even send the hornet [47] to find all the people that escape from you and hide themselves. He will destroy all those people.

Exodus 23:28

I will send the hornet [154] in front of you. He will force your enemies to leave. The Hivite people, the Canaanite people, and the Hittite people will leave your country.

Exodus 23:31

“You are my special people. So don’t eat the meat from something that was killed by wild animals. Let the dogs eat that dead animal.

Psalm 80:9

You prepared the ground for the “vine.”\par You helped its roots to grow strong.\par Soon the “vine” spread throughout\par the land.\par

Numbers 21:31

So the people of Israel made their camp in the land of the Amorite people.

Numbers 21:32

Moses sent some men to look at the town of Jazer. After Moses did this, the people of Israel captured that town. They captured the small towns that were around it. The people of Israel forced the Amorite people who were living there to leave.

Deuteronomy 4:46

Moses gave them these laws while they were on the east side of the Jordan River, in the valley across from Beth Peor. They were in the land of Sihon, the Amorite king that lived at Heshbon. (Moses and the people of Israel had defeated Sihon when they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:47

They took Sihon’s land to keep. They also took the land of Og, the king of Bashan. These two Amorite kings lived on the east side of the Jordan River.

Deuteronomy 31:4

“The Lord destroyed Sihon and Og. The Lord destroyed those Amorite kings. And the Lord will do the same thing for you again!

Joshua 2:10

We are afraid because we have heard about the ways that the Lord helped you. We heard that he dried the water at the Red Sea when you came out of Egypt. We also heard what you did to the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og. We heard how you destroyed those kings living east of the Jordan River.

Psalm 80:10

It covered the mountains.\par Its leaves shaded even the giant cedar trees.\par

Psalm 135:11

God defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites.\par God defeated Og, king of Bashan.\par God defeated all the nations in Canaan.\par