Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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 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 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. Berean Standard Bible The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. King James Bible 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. New King James Version And the LORD your God will expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight. So you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God promised you. New American Standard Bible And the LORD your God, He will thrust them away from you and drive them from you; and you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. NASB 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. NASB 1977 “And the LORD your God, He shall thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. Legacy Standard Bible And Yahweh your God, He will thrust them out from before you and dispossess them before you; and you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God promised you. Amplified Bible The LORD your God will push them away from before you and drive them out of your sight and you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. Christian Standard Bible 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. Holman Christian Standard Bible 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.” 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English LORD JEHOVAH your God shall break them, and he shall destroy them from before you and you shall inherit their land, as LORD JEHOVAH your God said to you Brenton Septuagint Translation And the Lord our God, he shall destroy them before us, until they utterly perish; and he shall send against them the wild beasts, until he shall have utterly destroyed them and their kings from before you; and ye shall inherit their land, as the Lord our God said to 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. 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation 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. 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. International Standard Version 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. JPS Tanakh 1917 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 spoke unto you. Literal Standard Version As for your God YHWH, He thrusts them from your presence, and has dispossessed them from before you, and you have possessed their land, as your God YHWH has spoken to you, Majority Standard Bible The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of 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. NET Bible 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. 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 Heart English Bible And the LORD your God will himself thrust them out from before you, and drive them out of your sight, and he will send wild animals against them until he utterly destroys them and their kings from before you; and you will inherit their land, as the LORD your God spoke to 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, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Joshua's Charge to Leaders…4See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea. 5The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. 6Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.… Cross References Exodus 23:20 Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Numbers 33:53 You are to 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. Treasury of Scripture 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. he shall Joshua 23:12,13 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: … Joshua 13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee. Exodus 23:30,31 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land… as the Lord Numbers 33:52,53 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: … Jump to Previous Dispossess Dispossessed Drive Driving Expel Possess Possessed Possession Presence Promised Push Sight Thrust WayJump to Next Dispossess Dispossessed Drive Driving Expel Possess Possessed Possession Presence Promised Push Sight Thrust WayJoshua 23 1. Joshua's exhortation before his death3. by former benefits 5. by promises 11. and by threatenings Verse 5. - And the Lord your God, he shall expel them. Or, Jehovah your God, He shall thrust them out. Joshua here uses the unusual word found in Deuteronomy 6:19; Deuteronomy 9:4, another instance of quotation from Deuteronomy. The word occurs in the sense of thrust in Numbers 35:20, 22. From out of your sight. Rather, from before you. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The LORDוַיהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֗ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative will push them יֶהְדֳּפֵ֣ם (yeh·do·p̄êm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural Strong's 1920: To thrust, drive, push out of your way מִפְּנֵיכֶ֔ם (mip·pə·nê·ḵem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face and drive them out וְהוֹרִ֥ישׁ (wə·hō·w·rîš) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin before you, אֹתָ֖ם (’ō·ṯām) Direct object marker | third person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case so that you can take possession of וִֽירִשְׁתֶּם֙ (wî·riš·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin their land, אַרְצָ֔ם (’ar·ṣām) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 776: Earth, land as כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer) Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative promised you. דִּבֶּ֛ר (dib·ber) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue Links Joshua 23:5 NIVJoshua 23:5 NLT Joshua 23:5 ESV Joshua 23:5 NASB Joshua 23:5 KJV Joshua 23:5 BibleApps.com Joshua 23:5 Biblia Paralela Joshua 23:5 Chinese Bible Joshua 23:5 French Bible Joshua 23:5 Catholic Bible OT History: Joshua 23:5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out (Josh. 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