Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

New American Standard Bible

Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.

King James Version

And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Holman Bible

I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you. It was not by your sword or bow.

International Standard Version

"Then I sent hornets ahead of you to drive out two kings of the Amorites before you without your using either sword or bow.

American Standard Version

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Amplified

I sent the hornet [that is, the terror of you] before you, which drove the two kings of the Amorites out before you; but it was not by your sword or by your bow.

Bible in Basic English

And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

Darby Translation

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, as the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Julia Smith Translation

And I will send before you the hornet, and it shall drive them out from your face, the two kings of the Amorites: not with thy sword and not with thy bow.

King James 2000

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I sent before you [the] hornet and they drove out before you two kings of the Amorites; [but] not by your sword or bow.

Modern King James verseion

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And I sent hornets before you and ye cast out before you: even the two kings of the Amorites: but not with your own sword or with your own bow.

NET Bible

I sent terror ahead of you to drive out before you the two Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.

New Heart English Bible

I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

The Emphasized Bible

And I sent before you the hornet, which drave them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites, - not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

Webster

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

World English Bible

I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Youngs Literal Translation

And I send before you the hornet, and it casteth them out from your presence -- two kings of the Amorite -- not by thy sword, nor by thy bow.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And I sent
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

the hornet
צרעה 
Tsir`ah 
Usage: 3

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

you, even the two
שׁתּים שׁנים 
Sh@nayim 
Usage: 767

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

of the Amorites
אמרי 
'Emoriy 
Usage: 87

but not with thy sword
חרב 
Chereb 
Usage: 413

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Joshua Recounts Their History

11 And ye went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And I delivered them 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I gave you a land in which thou had not labored, and cities which ye did not build, and ye dwell in it. Ye eat of vineyards and oliveyards which ye did not plant.


Cross References

Exodus 23:28

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

Deuteronomy 7:20

Moreover LORD thy God will send the hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves perish from before thee.

Psalm 44:3-6

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.

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