Joshua 24:12

I sent panic before you to drive out these nations, even the two kings of the Amorites. It was not your sword nor your bow that beat them.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11You crossed the Jordan and reached Jericho, where the men of Jericho fought you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I put them all into your hands.

13I gave you a land on which you had never laboured, you live in towns you never built, and you now eat from vineyards and olive groves that you never planted.

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Cross References

Psalms 44:3it was not their own arm that brought them the victory. Yours was the hand and the arm, yours was the face that shone on them with favor.

Psalms 80:10The shade of her covered the mountains, her branches the cedars of God.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 24:2-15

Joshua's Farewell Address to Israel. ( b. c. 1427.) 1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham… Read the whole commentary →

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