Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Cities
General references
Bible References
To pass
Deuteronomy 3:18
“I commanded you at that time: The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All your fighting men will cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 11:31
For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you. When you possess it and settle in it,
Deuteronomy 27:2
At the time you cross the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must set up large stones and cover them with plaster.
Joshua 1:11
“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.’”
Joshua 3:6
Then he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.
Joshua 4:5
and said to them, “Go across to the ark of the Lord your God in the middle of the Jordan. Each of you lift a stone onto his shoulder, one for each of the Israelite tribes,
Nations
Deuteronomy 4:38
to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.
Deuteronomy 7:1
“When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and He drives out many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—
Deuteronomy 11:23
the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.
Cities
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have discouraged us, saying: The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, fortified to the heavens. We also saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’
Numbers 13:22
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
General references
Numbers 33:51
“Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 11:23
the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.