Joshua 23:9
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New International Version
"The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you.


English Standard Version
For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.


New American Standard Bible
"For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.


King James Bible
For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and no one is able to stand against you to this day.


International Standard Version
because the LORD has expelled great and strong nations ahead of you. Now as for you, not a single man has been able to oppose you right to this day.


American Standard Version
For Jehovah hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto this day.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.


Darby Bible Translation
For Jehovah hath dispossessed from before you great and strong nations; and as to you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.


Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day;


Commentaries
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.

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 23:8
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