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He sent messages to the kings in the northern ·mountains [hill country] and also to the kings in the ·Jordan Valley [or Arabah] south of ·Lake Galilee [L Kinnereth] and in the ·western foothills [lowlands; L Shephelah]. He sent a message to the king of ·Naphoth [or the heights of] Dor in the west [C the coastal plain south of Mount Carmel] and to the kings of the Canaanites in the east and in the west. He sent messages to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, and Jebusites in the ·mountains [hill country]. Jabin also sent one to the Hivites, who lived below Mount Hermon in the area of Mizpah [C a coalition of the northern cities of Palestine]. So the armies of all these kings came together with their horses and chariots [C a great challenge to the Israelites, who only had foot soldiers]. There were as many soldiers as grains of sand on the seashore [Gen. 22:17].

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and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah(A) south of Kinnereth,(B) in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor(C) on the west; to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites(D) and Jebusites in the hill country;(E) and to the Hivites(F) below Hermon(G) in the region of Mizpah.(H) They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots—a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.(I)

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