Joshua 3 · Verse 10

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Joshua 3:10, King James Version

Joshua 3:10 in other translations

BSBHe continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
WEBJoshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
ASVAnd Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
YLTand Joshua saith, ‘By this ye know that the living God is in your midst, and He doth certainly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite:
DARBYAnd Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living God is in your midst, and that he will without fail dispossess from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
BBEAnd Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
WebsterAnd Joshua said, By this ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

What does Joshua 3:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 3:9-13

Jos 3:9-13. Joshua Encourages the People. 9-13. Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord--It seems that the Israelites had no intimation how they were to cross the river till shortly before the event. The premonitory address of Joshua, taken in connection with the miraculous result exactly as he had described it, would tend to increase and confirm their faith in the God of their fathers as not a dull, senseless…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you - The Israelites were apt to be discouraged, and to faint at even the appearance of danger; it was necessary, therefore, that they should have the fullest assurance of the presence and assistance of God in the important enterprise on which they were now entering. They are to combat idolaters, who have nothing to trust in and help them but gods of wood, stone, and metal: whereas they are to have the living God in the midst of them - He who is the author of life and of being - who can give, or take it away, at his pleasure; and who by this miracle proved that he had undertaken to guide and defend them: and Joshua makes this manifestation of God the proof that he will drive out the Hittites, Hivites, etc, before them. With regard to the situation of each of these nations in the land of Canaan, Calmet remarks, that those called Canaanites chiefly inhabited what is called Phoenicia, the environs of Tyre and Sidon: the Hittites occupied the mountains, southward of the promised land: the Hivites dwelt by Ebal and Gerizim, Sichem and Gibeon, towards the mountains of Hermon: the Perizzites were probably not a distinct nation or tribe, but rather villagers, scattered through the country in general: the Girgashites possessed the country beyond the Jordan, towards the lake of Gennesareth: the Jebusites possessed Jerusalem: and the Amorites occupied the mountainous country in the vicinity of the western part of the Dead Sea, and also that part of the land of Moab which the Israelites conquered from Sihon and Og.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 3:7-13

The waters of Jordan shall be cut off. This must be done in such a way as never was done, but in the dividing of the Red sea. That miracle is here repeated; God has the same power to finish the salvation of his people, as to begin it; the WORD of the Lord was as truly with Joshua as with Moses. God's appearances for his people ought to encourage faith and hope. God's work is perfect, he will keep his people…

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Joshua 3:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַye.ho.Shu.a'JoshuaH3091
בְּזֹאת֙be.zoTby thisH2063
תֵּֽדְע֔וּןte.de.'Unyou will know !H3045
כִּ֛יkithatH3588
אֵ֥ל'elGodH410
חַ֖יchailivingH2416
בְּקִרְבְּכֶ֑םbe.kir.be.Khem[is] in midst yourH7130
וְהוֹרֵ֣שׁve.ho.Reshand certainly <to dispossess>H3423
יוֹרִ֣ישׁyo.Rishhe will dispossessH3423
מִ֠פְּנֵיכֶםMi.pe.nei.khemfrom before youH6440
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַכְּנַעֲנִ֨יha.ke.na.'a.Nithe Canaanite[s]H3669
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַחִתִּ֜יha.chi.Tithe Hittite[s]H2850
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַחִוִּ֗יha.chi.Vithe Hivite[s]H2340
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַפְּרִזִּי֙ha.pe.ri.Zithe Perizzite[s]H6522
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
הַגִּרְגָּשִׁ֔יha.gir.ga.Shithe Girgashite[s]H1622
וְהָאֱמֹרִ֖יve.ha.'e.mo.Riand the Amorite[s]H567
וְהַיְבוּסִֽי\׃ve.hay.vu.Siand the Jebusite[s]H2983

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Cross references for Joshua 3:10

  • Deuteronomy 7:1

    When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

  • Exodus 33:2

    And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

  • Psalms 44:2-3

    How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

  • Hebrews 10:31

    It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

  • 1 Samuel 17:26

    And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

  • Joshua 22:31

    And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.

  • 2 Kings 19:4

    It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab–shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

  • Deuteronomy 31:17

    Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

  • Judges 6:12-13

    And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.

  • Exodus 3:8

    And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

  • Jeremiah 10:10

    But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

  • Exodus 23:27-30

    I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hereby ye.
Nu 15:28-30; 1Ki 18:36,37; 22:28; Ps 9:16; Isa 7:14; 2Co 13:2,3
living.
De 5:26; 1Sa 17:26; 2Ki 19:4; Jer 10:10; Ho 1:10; Mt 16:16
Joh 6:69; 1Th 1:9; Heb 10:31
among.
22:31; Ex 17:7; De 31:17; Jud 6:12,13
drive out from.
21:45; Ge 15:15-18; Ex 3:8; 23:27-30; 33:2; De 7:1; Ps 44:2,3

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Context

  • Joshua 3:9

    And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.

  • Joshua 3:10

    And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

  • Joshua 3:11

    Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.

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Joshua 3:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y añadió Josué: En esto conoceréis que el Dios viviente está en medio de vosotros, y que él echará de delante de vosotros al Cananeo, y al Heteo, y al Heveo, y al Pherezeo, y al Gergeseo, y al Amorrheo, y al Jebuseo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Josué dit: À ceci vous connaîtrez que le ✶Dieu vivant est au milieu de vous, et qu’il dépossédera certainement devant vous le Cananéen, et le Héthien, et le Hévien, et le Phérézien, et le Guirgasien, et l’Amoréen, et le Jébusien:
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Josua sprach: Hieran sollt ihr wissen, daß der lebendige Gott in eurer Mitte ist, und daß er die Kanaaniter und die Hethiter und die Hewiter und die Perisiter und die Girgasiter und die Amoriter und die Jebusiter gewißlich vor euch austreiben wird.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et rursum: In hoc, inquit, scietis quod Dominus Deus vivens in medio vestri est, et disperdet in conspectu vestro Chananæum et Hethæum, Hevæum et Pherezæum, Gergesæum quoque et Jebusæum, et Amorrhæum.