Joshua 24:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² I sent swarms of hornets ahead of you that drove out before you the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

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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

Moreover, the Lord your God will send swarms of hornets against them until even the survivors and the fugitives are destroyed.

Exodus 23:28

And I will send swarms of hornets in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

Exodus 23:31

I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will hand over to you the inhabitants of the land, and you shall drive them out before you.

Psalm 80:9

You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Numbers 21:31

Thus Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Deuteronomy 4:46

beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:47

They occupied his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites on the eastern side of the Jordan:

Deuteronomy 31:4

The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.

Joshua 2:10

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Psalm 80:10

The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;

Psalm 135:11

Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan—