Joshua 23:5
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This land will be yours, for the LORD your God will himself drive out all the people living there now. You will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The LORD your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD your God will force them back on your account and drive them out before you so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you."

International Standard Version (©2012)
The LORD your God will expel them in front of you, driving them out of your sight. You will take possession of this land, just as the LORD your God promised you.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD your God will expel them right in front of your eyes and force them out of your way. You will take their land as the LORD your God told you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised unto you.

American King James Version
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised to you.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised you.

Darby Bible Translation
And Jehovah your God, he will expel them from before you, and dispossess them from out of your sight; and ye shall take possession of their land, as Jehovah your God hath said unto you.

English Revised Version
And the LORD your God, he shall thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God spake unto you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised to you.

World English Bible
Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

Young's Literal Translation
'As to Jehovah your God, He doth thrust them from your presence, and hath dispossessed them from before you, and ye have possessed their land, as Jehovah your God hath spoken to you,

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Lord your God he shall expel them from before you,.... That is, such of them as yet remained among them:

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Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

For the Lord would drive all these still remaining nations before the Israelites, and cut them off, and give the Israelites their land for a possession, as He had promised (Joshua 13:6; cf. Exodus 23:23.). הדף, as in Deuteronomy 6:19; Deuteronomy 9:4; and the form יהדּפם, with Chateph-kametz, on account of the weakness of the ה, as in Numbers 35:20. ירשׁתּם, as in Joshua 1:15.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

And drive them - out - and ye shall possess - The same Hebrew word ירש yarash is used here to signify to expel from an inheritance, and to succeed those thus expelled. Ye shall disinherit them from your sight, and ye shall inherit their land.

Geneva Study Bible

And the LORD your God, he shall expel {b} 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.

(b) Which yet remain and are not overcome, as in Jos 13:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Jos 23:5-11. By Promises.

5-11. the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, as the Lord your God hath promised you, &c.-The actual possessions which God had given were a pledge of the complete fulfilment of His promise in giving them the parts of the country still unconquered. But the accomplishment of the divine promise depended on their inviolable fidelity to God's law-on their keeping resolutely aloof from all familiar intercourse and intimate connections with the Canaanites, or in any way partaking of their idolatrous sins. In the event of their continuing in steadfast adherence to the cause of God, as happily distinguished the nation at that time, His blessing would secure them a course of brilliant and easy victories (Le 26:7; De 28:7; 32:30).

Joshua 23:5 Parallel Commentaries
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Joshua's Charge to Leaders
…4Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward. 5And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised to you. 6Be you therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; …

Exodus 23:20 "See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Numbers 33:53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
Judges 2:21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.