Joshua 24:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:28 : 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.
  • Deut 7:20 : 20 Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.
  • Ps 44:3-6 : 3 For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them. 4 You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob’s deliverance! 5 By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes! 6 For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:27-31
    5 verses
    83%

    27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

    28I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

    29I will not drive them out 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 before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

    31I will set your boundaries 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 will drive them out before you.

  • Josh 24:11
    82%

    11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.

  • Josh 24:8
    80%

    8Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.

  • Deut 7:20
    79%

    20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

  • Josh 24:13
    77%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Deut 1:44
    77%

    44The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

  • Exod 33:2
    76%

    2I 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 destroy them completely.

  • Amos 2:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9For Israel’s sake I destroyed the Amorites. They were as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks, but I destroyed the fruit on their branches and their roots in the ground.

    10I brought you up from the land of Egypt; I led you through the wilderness for forty years so you could take the Amorites’ land as your own.

  • Josh 2:10
    74%

    10For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.

  • Exod 34:11
    74%

    11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Judg 6:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

    10I said to you,“I am the LORD your God! Do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’”

  • Num 14:43
    73%

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

  • Neh 9:24
    73%

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

  • Judg 2:3
    72%

    3At that time I also warned you,‘If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.’”

  • Josh 24:18
    72%

    18The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–

    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Deut 31:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

    5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • Josh 23:9
    72%

    9“The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.

  • Deut 4:38
    72%

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Deut 20:1
    72%

    1Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

  • Deut 29:7
    72%

    7When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

  • Judg 11:23
    72%

    23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

  • Deut 1:42
    72%

    42But the LORD told me:“Tell them this:‘Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.’”

  • Deut 2:36
    71%

    36From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon(it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us– the LORD our God gave them all to us.

  • Deut 2:24
    71%

    24“Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

  • Deut 9:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 7:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

    24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

  • Exod 3:17
    71%

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

  • Jer 24:10
    71%

    10I will bring war, starvation, and disease on them until they are completely destroyed from the land I gave them and their ancestors.’”

  • Num 32:21
    71%

    21and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

  • Lev 26:7
    71%

    7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 1:20
    70%

    20Then I said to you,“You have come to the Amorite hill country which the LORD our God is about to give us.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
    70%

    11So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

  • Deut 11:23
    70%

    23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Josh 11:8
    70%

    8The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

  • Deut 1:29
    70%

    29So I responded to you,“Do not be terrified of them!

  • Deut 20:17
    70%

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Judg 10:11
    70%

    11The LORD said to the Israelites,“Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,