Joshua 23:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.

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  • Exod 33:2 : 2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:
  • Exod 34:11 : 11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
  • Deut 11:23 : 23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
  • Josh 13:6 : 6 All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you: 13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Num 33:52-53 : 52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places: 53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.
  • Exod 23:30-31 : 30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land. 31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 11:23-25
    3 verses
    84%

    23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

    24 Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.

    25 All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

  • Deut 9:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    3 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

    4 And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 12:29
    81%

    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Num 33:52-53
    2 verses
    81%

    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Deut 6:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

  • Deut 31:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

    3 The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.

    4 The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

    5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • Deut 4:38
    80%

    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Deut 7:22-24
    3 verses
    78%

    22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

    23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

    24 He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.

  • Exod 23:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

    31 I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.

  • Judg 11:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23 So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?

    24 Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.

  • Deut 11:31
    78%

    31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • Deut 19:1
    78%

    1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • Josh 23:13
    76%

    13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 1:21
    76%

    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Neh 9:24
    76%

    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Josh 23:9
    75%

    9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

  • Josh 23:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.

    4 Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west.

  • Judg 6:9
    75%

    9 And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

  • Ps 78:55
    75%

    55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

  • Deut 20:17
    75%

    17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

  • Josh 1:15
    75%

    15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

  • Num 32:22
    75%

    22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

  • Num 33:55
    75%

    55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

  • Lev 20:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

    24 But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

  • Exod 34:11
    74%

    11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 7:17
    74%

    17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

  • Deut 30:5
    74%

    5 Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.

  • Exod 23:27
    73%

    27 I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

  • Exod 23:23
    73%

    23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

  • Deut 11:8
    73%

    8 So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

  • Josh 1:4
    73%

    4 From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.

  • Deut 3:22
    73%

    22 Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

  • Exod 33:2
    73%

    2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite: