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Joshua 24:11
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
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Study note
Setting — Joshua addresses the assembled tribes of Israel at Shechem, recounting the conquest narrative to establish the historical basis for their covenant renewal.
The words — וַתַּעַבְרוּ (vatta‘avru) translates literally as "and you passed over," while יְרִיחוֹ (Yericho) names the fortified city where the subsequent conflict occurs.
The thread — The Jordan crossing and Jericho campaign appear in Joshua 3:14 and Joshua 4:10, while the list of defeated nations echoes the conquest promise in Exodus 23:23.
Why it lands — The text states Yahweh delivered hostile nations into Israel’s hands despite their military resistance, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine agency in the conquest.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Joshua 3:14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
- Joshua 4:10 Now 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,
- Exodus 23:23 For 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.
- Deuteronomy 7:1 When 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—
- Joshua 4:23 For 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.
- Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
- Joshua 10:1 Now 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.
- Nehemiah 9:24 So 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.
- Psalms 78:54 He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
- Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,