Josué 3:10

10 Y añadió: «Ahora sabrán que el Dios viviente está en medio de ustedes, y que de seguro expulsará a los cananeos, los hititas, los heveos, los ferezeos, los gergeseos, los amorreos y los jebuseos.

Josué 3:10 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said
To the people as follows:

hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among you;
who has life in and of himself, and is the author of life to all his creatures; and is so called in opposition to the lifeless idols of the Gentiles: and it may be, as Abarbinel observes, to suggest to them, that though Moses was dead, the Lord lived, and lives for evermore; and by the following miracle of dividing the waters of Jordan, it would be a plain case that the Lord was yet among them, to protect and defend them, deliver and save them:

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;
all the seven nations are mentioned, even the Girgashites, who are sometimes omitted, to assure them of the expulsion of them all, to make way for their entire possession of the land of Canaan, as had been promised them.

Josué 3:10 In-Context

8 Dales la siguiente orden a los sacerdotes que llevan el arca del pacto: “Cuando lleguen a la orilla del Jordán, deténganse”».

9 Entonces Josué les dijo a los israelitas: «Acérquense y escuchen lo que Dios el SEÑOR tiene que decirles».

10 Y añadió: «Ahora sabrán que el Dios viviente está en medio de ustedes, y que de seguro expulsará a los cananeos, los hititas, los heveos, los ferezeos, los gergeseos, los amorreos y los jebuseos.

11 El arca del pacto, que pertenece al Soberano de toda la tierra, cruzará el Jordán al frente de ustedes.

12 Ahora, pues, elijan doce hombres, uno por cada tribu de Israel.