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.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Then you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you—also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand.
- NASB You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Therefore I handed them over to you.
- NLT “When you crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho, the men of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them.
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Quick answer
Israel crossed the Jordan to Jericho, whose people and the surrounding nations fought against them, yet God delivered them all into Israel's hand. It matters because the conquest of Canaan was won by God's power over many strong enemies.
Overview
This summarizes the crossing of the Jordan (Joshua 3-4) and the fall of Jericho (Joshua 6), naming the seven peoples of Canaan. The repeated emphasis on God delivering the enemies underscores that victory belonged to Yahweh. As Israel entered its promised rest through God's conquest, so believers enter their inheritance through the victory Christ has already won.
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- Josh 4:10–12Now 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,
- Josh 3:14–17So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.
- Josh 10:1–11Now 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.
- Josh 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.
- Josh 6:1–27Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
- Neh 9:24–25So 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.
- 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,
- Acts 13:19And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.
- Ps 114:5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
- Ps 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Ps 114:3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
- Exod 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.
- Ps 78:54–55He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
- Deut 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—
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