پادشاهان اموریان در غرب رود اردن و همهٔ پادشاهان کنعانیان در سواحل دریای مدیترانه، شنیدند که خداوند آب رود اردن را خشک نمود و مردم اسرائیل همگی از آن عبور کردند. بنابراین آنها از مردم اسرائیل بسیار ترسیدند و دل و جرأت خود را از دست دادند.
And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.