Joshua 23:10
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fights for you, as he has promised you.
Updated King James Version
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In Context
11Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that all of you love the LORD your God.
Cross References
Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before you, and will destroy all the people to whom you shall come, and I will make all yours enemies turn their backs unto you.
Leviticus 26:8And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Deuteronomy 20:4For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Joshua 10:42And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at the same, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Judges 3:31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.
Judges 15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
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 →