Joshua 11:2-5

Contemporary English Version

²the kings in the northern hill country and in the Jordan River valley south of Lake Galilee,^[a] and the kings in the foothills and in Naphath-Dor to the west. ³He sent messages to the Canaanite kings in the east and the west, to the Amorite, Hittite, Perizzite, and Jebusite kings in the hill country, and to the Hivite kings in the region of Mizpah, near the foot of Mount Hermon.^[b]

^4-5The kings and their armies went to Merom Pond,^[c] where they set up camp, and got ready to fight Israel. It seemed as though there were more soldiers and horses and chariots than there are grains of sand on a beach.

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Footnotes

11.2 Lake Galilee: The Hebrew text has “Lake Chinnereth,” an earlier name.
11.3 Mizpah, near the foot of Mount Hermon: Probably the same region as Mizpeh Valley in verses 8,9, but different from the two other places named Mizpeh in 15.37-41; 18.25-28, and also different from the Mizpah mentioned in Genesis 31.49 and Judges 10.17.
11.4,5 Pond: Or “Gorge.”