And it came to pass, when all the kings that 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 thereof,
Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills (note: Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea), and all along the coast of the Great Sea (note: That is, the Mediterranean Sea) toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—