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Joshua 5

Josh. 5:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it came to pass, when all the kings
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of the Amorites
'Emoriy (Hebrew #567)
thus, a mountaineer; an Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
KJV usage: Amorite.
Pronounce: em-o-ree'
Origin: probably a patronymic from an unused name derived from 559 in the sense of publicity, i.e. prominence
, which were on the side
`eber (Hebrew #5676)
properly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on the opposite side (especially of the Jordan; ususally meaning the east)
KJV usage: X against, beyond, by, X from, over, passage, quarter, (other, this) side, straight.
Pronounce: ay'-ber
Origin: from 5674
of Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
westward
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
, and all the kings
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
of the Canaanites
Kna`aniy (Hebrew #3669)
a Kenaanite or inhabitant of Kenaan; by implication, a pedlar (the Canaanites standing for their neighbors the Ishmaelites, who conducted mercantile caravans)
KJV usage: Canaanite, merchant, trafficker.
Pronounce: ken-ah-an-ee'
Origin: patrial from 3667
, whichf were by the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
, heard
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
g that the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
had dried up
yabesh (Hebrew #3001)
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
KJV usage: be ashamed, clean, be confounded, (make) dry (up), (do) shame(-fully), X utterly, wither (away).
Pronounce: yaw-bashe'
Origin: a primitive root
the waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
of Jordan
Yarden (Hebrew #3383)
a descender; Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
KJV usage: Jordan.
Pronounce: yar-dane'
Origin: from 3381
from before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
, until we were passed over
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
, thath their heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
melted
macac (Hebrew #4549)
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
KJV usage: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly.
Pronounce: maw-sas'
Origin: a primitive root
, neither was there spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
i in them any more, because
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
of the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Num. 13:29• 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. (Num. 13:29)
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Ex. 15:14‑15• 14{i}The peoples heard it, they were afraid:{HR}A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.{HR}{/i}
 15{i}Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}{/i} (Ex. 15:14‑15)
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Josh. 2:9,11• 9{i}and said to the men{/i}, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:9,11)
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Psa. 48:6• 6Trembling seized them there, pain as of one bringing forth. (Psa. 48:6)
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Ezek. 21:7• 7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold it cometh and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 21:7)
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1 Kings 10:5• 5{i}and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.{/i} (1 Kings 10:5)

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Amorite,
Heart,
Israel,
Jordan,
Kings,
River,
Sea,
Spirit,
The Canaanites

Cross References

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1:  The Canaanites are afraid.
2-9:  Joshua renews circumcision.
10-11:  The passover is kept at Gilgal
12:  They eat the corn of the land and the manna ceases.
13-15:  An angel appears to Joshua.
all the kings.
Josh. 12:9‑24• 9{i}The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;{/i}
 10{i}the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;{/i}
 11{i}the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;{/i}
 12{i}the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;{/i}
 13{i}the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;{/i}
 14{i}the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;{/i}
 15{i}the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;{/i}
 16{i}the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;{/i}
 17{i}the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;{/i}
 18{i}the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;{/i}
 19{i}the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;{/i}
 20{i}the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;{/i}
 21{i}the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;{/i}
 22{i}the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam on Carmel, one;{/i}
 23{i}the king of Dor in the upland of Dor, one; the king of Goim, at Gilgal, one;{/i}
 24{i}the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.{/i} (Josh. 12:9‑24)
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Josh. 24:15• 15{i}And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Amorite, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.{/i} (Josh. 24:15)
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Gen. 10:15‑19• 15And Canaan begat Zidon the firstborn, and Heth,
 16and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
 17and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
 18and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad.
 19And the border of the Canaanites was from Zidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gazah; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrha and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha. (Gen. 10:15‑19)
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Gen. 15:18‑21• 18{i}On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying,{/i} Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates,
 19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
 21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18‑21)
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Gen. 48:22• 22And I have given to thee one slope [shoulder] above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. (Gen. 48:22)
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Judg. 11:23• 23{i}And now{/i} Jehovah God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before His people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it? (Judg. 11:23)
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2 Sam. 21:2• 2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them, ({i}Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites;{/i} and the children of Israel had sworn unto them, and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah) (2 Sam. 21:2)
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Ezek. 16:3• 3{i}and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.{/i} (Ezek. 16:3)
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Amos 2:9• 9{i}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.{/i} (Amos 2:9)
Canaanites.
Josh. 17:12,18• 12{i}But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess the inhabitants of those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.{/i}
 18but the mountain shall be thine, {i}as it is a wood, thou shalt cut it down, and its outgoings shall be thine; for thou shalt dispossess the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots; for they are powerful.{/i} (Josh. 17:12,18)
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Gen. 12:6• 6{i}And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And{/i} the Canaanite was then in the land. (Gen. 12:6)
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Ex. 23:28• 28{i}And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.{/i} (Ex. 23:28)
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Judg. 1:1• 1{i}And it came to pass after the death of Joshua that the children of Israel asked Jehovah, saying, Which of us shall go up against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?{/i} (Judg. 1:1)
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Judg. 4:2• 2{i}And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the captain of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-Goim.{/i} (Judg. 4:2)
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Ezra 9:1• 1Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. (Ezra 9:1)
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Psa. 135:11• 11(To) Sihon king of the Amorites,{HR}And (to) Og king of (the) Bashan,{HR}And (to) all the kingdom of Canaan; (Psa. 135:11)
which were by.
Num. 13:29• 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. (Num. 13:29)
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Judg. 3:3• 3{i}five lord ships of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwell on mount Lebanon; from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.{/i} (Judg. 3:3)
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Zeph. 2:4‑6• 4For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
 5Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of Jehovah is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
 6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. (Zeph. 2:4‑6)
heard.
Josh. 2:9‑11• 9{i}and said to the men{/i}, I know, that Jehovah hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
 10For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:9‑11)
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Ex. 15:14‑15• 14{i}The peoples heard it, they were afraid:{HR}A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.{HR}{/i}
 15{i}Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}{/i} (Ex. 15:14‑15)
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Psa. 48:4‑6• 4For lo! the kings met, they passed through together.
 5They saw, so they wondered, they were terrified, they fled in alarm.
 6Trembling seized them there, pain as of one bringing forth. (Psa. 48:4‑6)
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Rev. 18:10• 10standing afar off because of the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour came thy judgment. (Rev. 18:10)
neither was.
1 Sam. 25:37• 37{i}And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.{/i} (1 Sam. 25:37)
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1 Kings 10:5• 5{i}and the food of his table, and the deportment of his servants, and the order of service of his attendants, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of Jehovah, there was no more spirit in her.{/i} (1 Kings 10:5)
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Isa. 13:6‑8• 6Howl ye; for the day of Jehovah [is] at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
 7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,
 8and they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flames. (Isa. 13:6‑8)
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Ezek. 21:7• 7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold it cometh and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 21:7)
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Dan. 5:6• 6Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. (Dan. 5:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they had passed over, that their heart melted, and there was no spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

W. Kelly Translation

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And it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they had passed over, that their heart melted, and there was no spirit in them anymore, because of the children of Israel.

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.)