Joshua 23:5

The Lord your God will make them retreat from you. He will drive them out before you and you will take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.

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In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

4I have allotted the land of the remaining nations for you to own, as well as the nations already conquered, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.

6Be sure to observe everything that is written in the book of the Law of Moses. Don't stray from it, either to the left or to the right.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:2I will send an angel out in front of you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Numbers 33:52you must drive out everyone living in the land, destroy all their carved images and metal idols, and tear down all their pagan temples.

Deuteronomy 11:23then the Lord will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will take over the country from nations that are greater and stronger than you.

Joshua 23:12For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one another,

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 →

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