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14 and led them along the route to Sinai and Kadesh-barnea. They drove out all the inhabitants of the wilderness 15 and settled in the land of the Amorites. By their strength they destroyed all the Heshbonites,(A) crossed the Jordan, and took possession of all the hill country.(B) 16 They drove out before them the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Shechemites,[a] and all the Gergesites,(C) and they lived there a long time.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:16 Shechemites: perhaps anticipates the allusion in Judith’s prayer (9:2) to Simeon’s revenge on these people.