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Joshua 23:3

What does Joshua 23:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Joshua 23:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that hath fought for you.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that hath fought for you.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and ye--ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all these nations because of you, for Jehovah your God <FI>is<Fi> He who is fighting for you;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the nations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

and ye have seen all that Jehovah yourGod hath done to all these nations because of you. For Jehovah yourGod is he that hath fought for you.

Context

v.2that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and well stricken in years:

v.3This passage

v.4Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 44:1

    We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.

  • Joshua 10:14

    And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for Israel.

  • Exodus 14:14

    Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

  • Deuteronomy 4:9

    Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;

  • Malachi 1:5

    And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

  • Joshua 10:42

    And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

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