Joshua 23:5
What does Joshua 23:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Joshua 23:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`As to Jehovah your God, He doth thrust them from your presence, and hath dispossessed them from before you, and ye have possessed their land, as Jehovah your God hath spoken to you,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Jehovah yourGod, he will expel them from before you, and dispossess them from out of your sight; and ye shall take possession of their land, as Jehovah yourGod hath said unto you.
Context
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.
v.5This passage
v.6Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 33:52
then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:
- Exodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 23:30
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
- Joshua 23:12
Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;
- Joshua 13:6
all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
- Deuteronomy 11:23
then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
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