It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;
(3) Even the critical fancy of moving the date of the passage to the period of the exile, or later, is today widely rejected.  Sizoo noted that: