5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they 2 crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. 3
1 tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”
2 tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”
3 tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”