Joshua 23:9
And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8But cleave ye unto the Lord your God: as you have done until this day.
Cross References
Exodus 23:30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.
Deuteronomy 11:23The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
Joshua 1:8Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.
Joshua 21:43Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto them, was made void, but all came to pass.
Joshua 24:18And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.
2 Chronicles 20:7Didst not thou our God kill all the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
Matthew Henry on Joshua 23:2-11
Joshua's Charge to Israel. ( b. c. 1427.) 1 And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age. 2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age: 3 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… Read the whole commentary →