Joshua 24:12

Joshua chapter 24 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.11And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

v.12This passage

v.13And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not labored, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 44:3

    For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.

  • Deuteronomy 7:20

    Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.

  • Exodus 23:28

    And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.