JOSHUA 24:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.”
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites. It was not by your sword or by your bow — The 'hornet' (ṣirʿâ), mentioned in Joshua 24:12 (not 11 in some texts), represents divine agency operating independent of human military technology. The statement 'It was not by your sword or by your bow' (lōʾ beḥarbĕka wĕlōʾ beqaštĕka) explicitly denies human military causation; conquest is entirely divine work.
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