Joshua 24:12 - Tree of Life Version

¹² Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove them out from before you—the two kings of the Amorites—not by your sword or 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

You cleared a place for it, and it took deep root and filled the land.

Psalm 80:9

You pulled out a vine from Egypt. You drove out nations and planted it.

Exodus 23:28

I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites, from before you.

Exodus 23:31

“I will set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you are to drive them out before you.

Numbers 21:31

So Israel was living in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

After Moses sent spies to Jazer, they captured her towns and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Deuteronomy 31:4

“Adonai will do to them just 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 king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and Bnei-Yisrael struck down when they came out from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 4:47

They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of the Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan toward the east—

Deuteronomy 7:20

“Moreover, Adonai your God will send the hornet against them, until the survivors and those in hiding perish before you.

Joshua 2:10

For we have heard how Adonai dried up the water of the Sea of Reeds 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.