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
At that time I instructed you as follows: "The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.
Deuteronomy 11:31
For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.
Deuteronomy 27:2
When you cross the Jordan River to the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover them with plaster.
Joshua 1:11
"Go through the camp and command the people, 'Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.'"
Joshua 3:6
Joshua told the priests, "Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people." So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.
Joshua 4:5
Joshua told them, "Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.
Nations
Deuteronomy 4:38
to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you -- Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you --
Deuteronomy 11:23
then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Cities
Deuteronomy 1:28
What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there."
Numbers 13:22
When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
General references
Numbers 33:51
"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 11:23
then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.