Joshua 24:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² ‘And I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two sovereigns of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with 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

Psalm 135:11

Even Siḥ

Psalm 80:10

Hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its twigs.

Psalm 80:9

You cleared a place for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land.

Exodus 23:28

“And I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Ḥ

Exodus 23:31

“And I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Numbers 21:31

So Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 21:32

And Mosheh sent to spy out Yaʽ

Deuteronomy 31:4

“And יהוה  shall do to them as He did to Siḥ

Deuteronomy 4:46

beyond the Yardĕ

Deuteronomy 4:47

And they took possession of his land and the land of Og sovereign of Bashan, two sovereigns of the Amorites, who were beyond the Yardĕ

Deuteronomy 7:20

“And יהוה  your Elohim also sends the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

Joshua 2:10

“For we have heard how יהוה  dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds for you when you came out of Mitsrayim, and what you did to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who were beyond the Yardĕ