Joshua 23:10
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New International Version (©2011)
One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy, for the LORD your God fights for you, just as he has promised.

English Standard Version (©2001)
One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
One of you routed a thousand because the LORD your God was fighting for you, as He promised.

International Standard Version (©2012)
A single man makes a thousand flee, because the LORD your God is the one who is fighting for you, just as he promised you.

NET Bible (©2006)
One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
One of you used to chase a thousand. That was because the LORD your God was fighting for you, as he had promised you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.

Darby Bible Translation
One man of you chaseth a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.

English Revised Version
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you.

Webster's Bible Translation
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

World English Bible
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

Young's Literal Translation
one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-10 Joshua was old and dying, let them observe what he said now. He put them in mind of the great things God had done for them in his days. He exhorted them to be very courageous. Keep with care, do with diligence, and regard with sincerity what is written. Also, very cautiously to endeavour that the heathen idolatry may be forgotten, so that it may never be revived. It is sad that among Christians the names of the heathen gods are so commonly used, and made so familiar as they are. Joshua exhorts them to be very constant. There might be many things amiss among them, but they had not forsaken the Lord their God; the way to make people better, is to make the best of them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - One man of you shall chase a thousand. A quotation from the song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:30).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

One man of you shall chase a thousand,.... Here Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that the future tense is put for the past, and that the sense is, one of them had chased a thousand in their war with the Canaanites; but Abarbinel disapproves of this observation, and thinks it refers to time to come, what they should be able to do if they cleaved unto the Lord; this was fulfilled in Samson, Judges 15:15; such a promise was made, Leviticus 26:8,

for the Lord your God he it is that fighteth for you; and no wonder then that a thousand should be put to flight by one man; the Targum interprets it of the Word of the Lord, as in Joshua 23:3,

as he hath promised you; see Deuteronomy 1:30.

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Joshua's Charge to Leaders
…9For the LORD has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. 10One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fights for you, as he has promised you. 11Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. …

Leviticus 26:8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.
Deuteronomy 3:22 Do not be afraid of them; the LORD your God himself will fight for you."
Deuteronomy 20:3 He shall say: "Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them.
Deuteronomy 20:4 For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."
Deuteronomy 28:7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.
Deuteronomy 32:20 "I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
Joshua 23:3 You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
Joshua 23:11 So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
Judges 15:15 Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
1 Chronicles 5:22 and many others fell slain, because the battle was God's. And they occupied the land until the exile.
Isaiah 30:17 A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee away, till you are left like a flagstaff on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill."
Zechariah 12:8 On that day the LORD will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the LORD going before them.