Joshua 23:5
Good News Translation
The LORD your God will make them retreat from you, and he will drive them away as you advance. You shall have their land, as the LORD your God has promised you.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

New American Bible
The LORD, your God, will drive them out and dispossess them at your approach, so that you will take possession of their land as the LORD, your God, promised 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

he shall

Joshua 23:12,13 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: . . .

Joshua 13:6 Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from before the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as a part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.

Exodus 23:30,31 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land. . . .

Exodus 33:2 And I will send an angel before thee, that I may cast out the Chanaanite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,

Exodus 34:11 Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 11:23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

as the Lord

Numbers 33:52,53 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places, . . .

Context
Joshua's Charge to Leaders
4And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain: 5The 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.6Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are written in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them neither to the right hand nor to the left:…
Cross References
Exodus 23:20
Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared.

Numbers 33:53
Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

Judges 2:21
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:

Joshua 23:4
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