Judges 3:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

the Philistines and their five rulers, as well as the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the Lebanon Mountains from Mount Baal-Hermon to Hamath Pass.

Cross References

Genesis 49:13

Zebulun, you will settle along the seashore and provide safe harbours as far north as Sidon.

2 Samuel 24:7

They came to the fortress of Tyre, then went through every town of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Finally, they went to Beersheba in the Southern Desert of Judah.

1 Kings 8:65

Solomon and the huge crowd celebrated the Festival of Shelters at the temple for seven days. There were people from as far away as the Egyptian Gorge in the south and Lebo-Hamath in the north.

1 Kings 9:20

Solomon did not force the Israelites to do his work. They were his soldiers, officials, leaders, commanders, chariot captains, and chariot drivers. But he did make slaves of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were living in Israel. These were the descendants of those foreigners the Israelites could not destroy, and they remained Israel's slaves.

Ezekiel 47:20

The western border will run north along the Mediterranean Sea to a point just west of Lebo-Hamath.

Numbers 13:29

Besides that, the Amalekites live in the Southern Desert; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites are in the hill country; and the Canaanites live along the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan.

Numbers 34:8

After that, it will run to Lebo-Hamath and across to Zedad, which is the northern edge of your land.

Deuteronomy 1:7

Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbours the Canaanites. This land includes the valley of the River Jordan, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean coast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the River Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 3:9

Mount Hermon is called Mount Sirion by the people of Sidon, and it is called Mount Senir by the Amorites.

Joshua 11:19

The LORD had told Moses that he wanted the towns in this region destroyed and their people killed without mercy. That's why the LORD made the people in the towns stubborn and determined to fight Israel. The only town that signed a peace treaty with Israel was the Hivite town of Gibeon. The Israelite army captured the rest of the towns in battle.

Joshua 11:3

He sent messages to the Canaanite kings in the east and the west, to the Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, and Jebusite kings in the hill country, and to the Hivite kings in the region of Mizpah, near the foot of Mount Hermon.

Joshua 19:28

Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, and as far north as the city of Sidon.

Joshua 9:7

The Israelites replied, “But perhaps you really live near us. We can't make a peace treaty with you if you live nearby.” The Gibeonites said, “If you make a peace treaty with us, we will be your servants.” “Who are you?” Joshua asked. “Where do you come from?” They answered:

Judges 10:7

The LORD was angry with Israel and decided to let Philistia and Ammon conquer them.

Judges 14:4

At that time, the Philistines were in control of Israel, and the LORD wanted to stir up trouble for them. That's why he made Samson desire that woman.

Judges 18:7

The five men left and went to the town of Laish, whose people were from Sidon, but Sidon was too far away to protect them. Even though their town had no walls, the people thought they were safe from attack. So they had not asked anyone else for protection, which meant that the tribe of Dan could easily take over Laish.

Judges 4:2

So the LORD let the Canaanite King Jabin of Hazor conquer Israel. Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, lived in Harosheth-Ha-Goiim.

1 Samuel 13:5

The Philistines called their army together to fight Israel. They had three thousand chariots, six thousand cavalry, and as many foot soldiers as there are grains of sand on the beach. They went to Michmash and set up camp there east of Beth-Aven.

1 Samuel 29:2

The Philistine rulers and their troops were marching past the Philistine army commanders in groups of a hundred and a thousand. When David and his men marched by at the end with Achish, the commanders said, “What are these worthless Israelites doing here?” “They are David's men,” Achish answered. “David used to be one of Saul's officers, but he left Saul and joined my army a long time ago. I've never had even one complaint about him.”

1 Samuel 6:16

When the five rulers of the Philistines saw what had happened, they went back to Ekron that same day.

1 Samuel 6:18

They also sent one gold rat for each walled town and for every village that the five Philistine rulers controlled. The huge stone where the Levites set the chest is still there in Joshua's field as a reminder of what happened.

1 Samuel 6:4

“What should we send?” the Philistines asked. The priests and fortune-tellers answered: There are five Philistine rulers, and they all have the same disease that you have.