Joshua 2:10

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Joshua 2:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof

9 and said to them, “I know that the LORD has given you this land and that the fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of you.

10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites across the Jordan, whom you devoted to destruction.

11 When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

12 Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

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Joshua 4:24

He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,

Exodus 14:22

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:23

And the Egyptians chased after them—all Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen—and followed them into the sea.

Exodus 14:24

At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.

Exodus 14:25

He caused their chariot wheels to wobble, so that they had difficulty driving. “Let us flee from the Israelites,” said the Egyptians, “for the LORD is fighting for them against Egypt!”

Exodus 14:26

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”

Exodus 14:27

So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.

Exodus 14:28

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Exodus 14:29

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:30

That day the LORD saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore.

Exodus 14:31

When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.

Exodus 15:14

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.

Exodus 15:15

Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

Exodus 15:16

and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.

Numbers 21:21

Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

Numbers 21:22

“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

Numbers 21:23

But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Numbers 21:24

And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

Numbers 21:25

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21:26

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

Numbers 21:28

For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:30

But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Numbers 21:31

So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 21:33

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

Numbers 21:34

But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Numbers 21:35

So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

Deuteronomy 2:31

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:32

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 2:35

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Deuteronomy 2:37

But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

Deuteronomy 3:1

Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 3:2

But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 3:3

So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no survivor was left.

Deuteronomy 3:4

At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

Deuteronomy 3:6

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

Deuteronomy 3:7

But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

Deuteronomy 3:8

At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—