Joshua 24:12 - The Scriptures 2009

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.

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

Even Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, And Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, And all the reigns of Kena‛an.

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 Ḥiwwite, the Kena‛anite, and the Ḥittite from before you.

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’ĕl dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

And Mosheh sent to spy out Ya‛zĕr. And they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there,

Deuteronomy 31:4

“And יהוה shall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 4:46

beyond the Yardĕn, in the valley opposite Bĕyth Pe‛or, in the land of Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at Ḥeshbon, whom Mosheh and the children of Yisra’ĕl had stricken after they came out of Mitsrayim.

Deuteronomy 4:47

And they took possession of his land and the land of Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, two sovereigns of the Amorites, who were beyond the Yardĕn, toward the rising of the sun,

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 Yardĕn, Siḥon and Oḡ, whom you put under the ban.