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10 He continued: “By this you will know that there is a living God in your midst: he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.(A)

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10 This is how you will know that the living God(A) is among you(B) and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites,(C) Hivites, Perizzites,(D) Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.(E)

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10 And 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.

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20 For it was the Lord’s doing to make their hearts obstinate to meet Israel in battle, that they might be put under the ban without mercy, and be destroyed as the Lord had commanded Moses.(A)

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20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts(A) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.(B)

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20 For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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28 and ahead of you I will send hornets[a] to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:28 Hornets: the Hebrew sir’ah is a disputed term, but according to ancient interpreters it refers to hornets that were unleashed against the enemy to sting them and cause panic (cf. Dt 7:20; Jos 24:12; Wis 12:8). Others associate the word with plagues or troublesome afflictions.

28 I will send the hornet(A) ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites(B) out of your way.

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28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

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20 Moreover, the Lord, your God, will send hornets among them, until those who are left and those who are hiding from you are destroyed.(A)

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20 Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet(A) among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.

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20 Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

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You rooted out nations to plant them,(A)
    crushed peoples and expelled them.

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It was not by their sword(A) that they won the land,
    nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand,(B) your arm,(C)
    and the light(D) of your face, for you loved(E) them.

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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

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