Joshua 24:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow.

Joshua 24:12 Cross References

Psalm 135:11

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

Psalm 80:10

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

Psalm 80:9

Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.

Exodus 23:28

And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out Hivite, Canaanite, and Hittite from before you.

Exodus 23:31

And I will set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Numbers 21:31

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages, and dispossessed the Amorites that were there.

Deuteronomy 31:4

And 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.

Deuteronomy 4:46

beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:47

And they took possession of his land and the land of Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.

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 that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.