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Joshua 24:11

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

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KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

WEB World English Bible

“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

ASV American Standard Version

And 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.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

‘And ye pass over the Jordan, and come in unto Jericho, and fight against you do the possessors of Jericho—the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—and I give them into your hand.

Surrounding context — Joshua 24

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

9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

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

12 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.

13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

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וַתַּעַבְר֣וּH5674 · a.varto pass אֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַיַּרְדֵּן֮H3383 · yar.denJordan וַתָּבֹ֣אוּH935 · boto come (in): come אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)יְרִיחוֹ֒H3405 · ye.ri.choJericho וַיִּלָּחֲמ֣וּH3898 · la.chamto fight בָכֶ֣םH9036 · khemyou בַּעֲלֵֽי־H1167 · ba.almaster יְ֠רִיחוֹH3405 · ye.ri.choJericho הָֽאֱמֹרִ֨יH567 · e.mo.riAmorite וְהַפְּרִזִּ֜יH6522 · pe.riz.ziPerizzite וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗יH3669 · ke.na.a.niCanaanite וְהַֽחִתִּי֙H2850 · chit.tiHittite וְהַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֔יH1622 · gir.ga.shiGirgashite הַֽחִוִּ֖יH2340 · chiv.viHivite וְהַיְבוּסִ֑יH2983 · ye.vu.siJebusite וָאֶתֵּ֥ןH5414 · na.tanto give: give אוֹתָ֖םH853 · et[Obj.]בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃H3027 · yadhand

Cross-references

Joshua 3:14-17And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;Joshua 4:10-12For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.Psalm 78:54-55And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.Joshua 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:Acts 7:45Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;Joshua 6:1-27Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.Joshua 10:1-11Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;Nehemiah 9:24-25So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.Exodus 23:23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, [and] the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.Psalm 105:44And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;Psalm 114:3The sea saw [it], and fled: Jordan was driven back.Psalm 114:5What [ailed] thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, [that] thou wast driven back?Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;Acts 13:19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

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