Joshua 24:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow.

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  • Exod 23:28 : 28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
  • Deut 7:20 : 20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
  • Ps 44:3-6 : 3 For they did not gain the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them: but Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because You had favor unto them. 4 You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 5 Through You will we push down our enemies: through Your name will we tread them under who rise up against us. 6 For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.

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  • Exod 23:27-31
    5 verses
    83%

    27I will send my fear before you and will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

    28And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

    29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

    30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.

    31And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

  • Josh 24:11
    82%

    11And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

  • Josh 24:8
    80%

    8And I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

  • Deut 7:20
    79%

    20Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves from you, are destroyed.

  • Josh 24:13
    77%

    13And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat from vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant.

  • Deut 1:44
    77%

    44And the Amorites, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, as far as Hormah.

  • Exod 33:2
    76%

    2And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • Exod 23:23
    76%

    23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

  • Amos 2:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

    10Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  • Josh 2:10
    74%

    10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  • Exod 34:11
    74%

    11Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Judg 6:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;

    10And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But you have not obeyed my voice.

  • Num 14:43
    73%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you shall fall by the sword: because you have turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

  • Neh 9:24
    73%

    24So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.

  • Judg 2:3
    72%

    3Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

  • Josh 24:18
    72%

    18And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

    2And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

  • Deut 31:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.

    5And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • Josh 23:9
    72%

    9For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations: but as for you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day.

  • Deut 4:38
    72%

    38To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

  • Deut 20:1
    72%

    1When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and a people more than you, do not be afraid of them: for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 29:7
    72%

    7And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them down:

  • Judg 11:23
    72%

    23So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?

  • Deut 1:42
    72%

    42And the LORD said to me, Tell them, Do not go up or fight, because I am not among you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.

  • Deut 2:36
    71%

    36From Aroer by the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all unto us.

  • Deut 2:24
    71%

    24Rise up, take your journey, and cross over the river Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it and engage him in battle.

  • Deut 9:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you.

    5It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 7:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.

    24And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: no man will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

  • Exod 3:17
    71%

    17And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Jer 24:10
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    10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

  • Num 32:21
    71%

    21And will all of you go armed over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

  • Lev 26:7
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    7And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 1:20
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    20And I said to you, You have come to the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving to us.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
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    11And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you dwelled safe.

  • Deut 11:23
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    23Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.

  • Josh 11:8
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    8And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left none remaining.

  • Deut 1:29
    70%

    29Then I said to you, Do not be terrified, nor be afraid of them.

  • Deut 20:17
    70%

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Judg 10:11
    70%

    11And the LORD said to the children of Israel, Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?