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Yet destroyed I the Amoriteq before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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Josh. 24:8• ⁸And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land, and I destroyed them from before you. (Josh. 24:8)

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Gen. 15:16• ¹⁶But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Gen. 15:16)

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Ex. 3:8• ⁸and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good and large land, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. (Ex. 3:8)

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Ex. 34:11• ¹¹Observe what I command thee this day: behold, I will drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. (Ex. 34:11)

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Num. 21:24• ²⁴And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. (Num. 21:24)

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Deut. 2:24‑33• ²⁴Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
²⁵This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
²⁶And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace saying,
²⁷Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway; I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
²⁸Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet.
²⁹—as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, —until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
³⁰But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him: for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
³¹And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land.
³²Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
³³And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. (Deut. 2:24‑33)

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Josh. 3:10• ¹⁰And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites. (Josh. 3:10)

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Josh. 24:8‑12• ⁸And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
⁹And 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;
¹⁰but I would not hearken unto Balaam, and he blessed you expressly, and I delivered you out of his hand.
¹¹And ye went over the 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.
¹²And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, as the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. (Josh. 24:8‑12)

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Judg. 11:21‑23• ²¹And Jehovah God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
²²And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok. and from the wilderness unto the Jordan.
²³And now Jehovah God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? (Judg. 11:21‑23)

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Neh. 9:22‑24• ²²And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.
²³And their children thou didst multiply as the stars of heaven, and thou broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
²⁴And 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, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would. (Neh. 9:22‑24)

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Psa. 135:10‑12• ¹⁰Who smote many nations and slew strong kings.
¹¹(To) Sihon king of the Amorites,{HR}And (to) Og king of (the) Bashan,{HR}And (to) all the kingdom of Canaan;
¹²And gave their land an inheritance,{HR}An inheritance to Israel his people. (Psa. 135:10‑12)

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Psa. 136:17‑22• ¹⁷To him that smote great kings;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
¹⁸And slew famous kings;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
¹⁹(To) Sihon, king of the Amorites;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
²⁰And (to) Og, the king of (the) Bashan;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
²¹And gave their land for an inheritance;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
²²An inheritance to Israel his servant;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever; (Psa. 136:17‑22)

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Num. 13:28‑29,32‑33• ²⁸Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
²⁹The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
³²They brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land through which we have gone to search it is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof, and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
³³And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Num. 13:28‑29,32‑33)

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Deut. 1:28• ²⁸Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. (Deut. 1:28)

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Deut. 2:10‑11• ¹⁰(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
¹¹They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. (Deut. 2:10‑11)

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Deut. 3:11• ¹¹For only Og the king of Bashan remained of the residue of giants: behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? its length was nine cubits, and its breadth four cubits, after the cubit of a man. (Deut. 3:11)

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Deut. 9:1‑3• ¹Hear, Israel! Thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to enter in to possess nations greater and mightier than thou, cities great and walled up to heaven,
²a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak!
³Know then this day, that Jehovah thy God is he that goeth over before thee, a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will cast them down before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them and cause them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath said unto thee. (Deut. 9:1‑3)

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Josh. 11:21‑22• ²¹And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
²²There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained. (Josh. 11:21‑22)

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2 Sam. 23:16‑22• ¹⁶And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; however he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.
¹⁷And he said, Be it far from me, Jehovah, that I should do this thing! is it not the blood of the men that went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
¹⁸And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was the chief of three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them; and he had a name among the three.
¹⁹Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the first three.
²⁰And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lions of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
²¹He also smote the Egyptian, an imposing man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
²²These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men. (2 Sam. 23:16‑22)

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Job 18:16• ¹⁶Beneath, his roots shall be dried up,{HR}And above, his branch shall be cut off. (Job 18:16)

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Isa. 5:24• ²⁴Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:24)

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Mal. 4:1• ¹For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

W. Kelly Translation

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But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)