Joshua 23:9
“For the LORD has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
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In Context
8but hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
Cross References
Exodus 23:30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.
Deuteronomy 11:23then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Joshua 21:43So the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.
Joshua 24:18The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.”
2 Chronicles 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
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 →