Joshua 24:11

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joshua 24:11 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 23:23For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.
  2. Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  3. Joshua 3:10He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
  4. Joshua 3:14So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
  5. Joshua 4:1When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
  6. Joshua 4:10Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,
  7. Joshua 4:11and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the LORD crossed in the sight of the people.
  8. Joshua 4:19On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
  9. Joshua 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
  10. Joshua 6:1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
  11. Joshua 6:6So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”
  12. Joshua 9:2they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.
  13. Joshua 10:1Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
  14. Nehemiah 9:24So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
  15. Psalms 78:54He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
  16. Psalms 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
  17. Psalms 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
  18. Psalms 114:5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
  19. Acts 7:45And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
  20. Acts 13:19And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

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