Joshua 21:43

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

So the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which He had sworn to give their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    So Jehovah{H3068} gave{H5414} unto Israel{H3478} all the land{H776} which he sware{H7650} to give{H5414} unto their fathers;{H1} and they possessed{H3423} it, and dwelt{H3427} therein.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the LORD{H3068} gave{H5414}{(H8799)} unto Israel{H3478} all the land{H776} which he sware{H7650}{(H8738)} to give{H5414}{(H8800)} unto their fathers{H1}; and they possessed{H3423}{(H8799)} it, and dwelt{H3427}{(H8799)} therein.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thus the LORDE gaue the children of Israel all the londe, which he had sworne vnto their fathers to geue: & they toke possession of it, and dwelt therin.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    So the Lord gaue vnto Israel all ye land, which hee had sworne to giue vnto their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the Lorde gaue vnto Israel all the lande which he sware to geue vnto their fathers: And they conquered it, & dwelt therin.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived therein.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Jehovah giveth to Israel the whole of the land which He hath sworn to give to their fathers, and they possess it, and dwell in it;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    So Jehovah gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    So Jehovah gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:15 : 15 For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.
  • Exod 23:27-31 : 27 I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. 28 I will send the hornet ahead of you to drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hittites from your path. 29 I will not drive them out before you in a single year, because the land would become desolate, and the wild animals would multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you are fruitful and take possession of the land. 31 I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give into your hands the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out before you.
  • Deut 11:31 : 31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. You will take possession of it and live in it.
  • Deut 17:14 : 14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and take possession of it and settle in it, and you say, 'Let us appoint a king over us, like all the nations around us,'
  • Deut 34:4 : 4 Then the Lord said to him, 'This is the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross over into it.'
  • Ps 44:3 : 3 It was by Your hand that You drove out the nations and planted our ancestors. You afflicted the peoples and sent them away.
  • Ps 106:42-45 : 42 Their enemies oppressed them and subdued them under their power. 43 Many times He delivered them, but they were rebellious in their plans and sank into their iniquity. 44 Yet He saw their distress when He heard their cry. 45 He remembered His covenant with them and relented according to the abundance of His lovingkindness.
  • Gen 28:13-14 : 13 And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.' 14 Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south. Through you and your descendants, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 'So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.'
  • Gen 15:13-21 : 13 The LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be foreigners in a land not their own, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years." 14 "But I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will come out with great wealth." 15 "As for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age." 16 In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure. 17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking oven and a burning torch appeared and passed between the divided pieces. 18 On that day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River— 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
  • Gen 26:3-4 : 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and give them all these lands, and through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 21:44-45
    2 verses
    82%

    44 The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. Not one of their enemies could stand against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hands.

    45 Not one of the good promises the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; they all came to pass.

  • Num 33:53
    79%

    53 You shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

  • Josh 11:23
    77%

    23 So Joshua took the entire land, just as the LORD had promised to Moses, and gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. And the land had rest from war.

  • Judg 11:21-23
    3 verses
    77%

    21 The Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into Israel’s hand, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who lived in that territory.

    22 They took possession of the entire region of the Amorites, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

    23 Now the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites before His people Israel. Would you now take possession of it?

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8 See, I have set the land before you. Go and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and to their descendants after them.

  • Ps 135:12
    76%

    12 He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.

  • Jer 32:22
    75%

    22 You gave them this land You swore to give to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 11:31
    75%

    31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you. You will take possession of it and live in it.

  • Neh 9:22-25
    4 verses
    74%

    22 You gave them kingdoms and nations, dividing them into regions. They took possession of the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

    23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had promised their ancestors they would enter and take possession of.

    24 Their descendants went in and took possession of the land. You subdued the inhabitants of the land—the Canaanites—before them and handed their kings and the peoples of the land over to them, to do with as they desired.

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  • Num 21:31
    74%

    31 So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

  • Ezek 47:21
    74%

    21 You are to divide this land among the tribes of Israel.

  • Num 21:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 Israel defeated him with the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was fortified.

    25 Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and settled in them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

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    73%

    42 Each of these cities had its surrounding pasture lands. This was true for all these cities.

  • Isa 34:17
    73%

    17 He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it among them with the measuring line. They will possess it forever; from generation to generation, they will dwell there.

  • Ezek 47:14
    73%

    14 You are to divide it equally among yourselves. I swore to give it to your ancestors, and this land will fall to you as an inheritance.

  • Josh 1:15
    73%

    15 Until the LORD gives your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they also take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them, then you may return to the land of your possession and settle it—the land that Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.

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    72%

    11 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.'

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    8 And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your ancestors, and gives you the entire land He promised to give them,

  • Exod 13:11
    72%

    11 When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your ancestors, and gives it to you,

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    72%

    44 He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what others had worked for,

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    72%

    13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.

  • Josh 1:3
    72%

    3 Every place the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.

  • Num 32:22
    72%

    22 then the land will be subdued before the Lord, and afterward you may return and be free from obligation to the Lord and Israel. This land will then be your possession before the Lord.

  • Josh 18:3
    72%

    3 Joshua said to the Israelites, "How long will you delay entering to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you?

  • Josh 14:1
    72%

    1 These are the territories the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral tribes allotted to the Israelites.

  • Deut 11:9
    71%

    9 And so that you may live long in the land the LORD swore to give to your ancestors and their descendants—a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 29:8
    71%

    8 Therefore, keep the words of this covenant and do them, so that you may prosper in all that you do.

  • Josh 21:3
    71%

    3 So the Israelites gave the Levites, according to the LORD’s command, the following cities and pasture lands from their inheritance.

  • Deut 3:20
    71%

    20 'You are to help your fellow Israelites until the LORD gives them rest, as He has done for you, and they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. After that, each of you may return to the possession I have given you.'

  • Josh 10:42
    71%

    42 Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one time because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

  • Josh 22:4
    71%

    4 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, just as He promised them. So now turn and go back to your tents in the land of your possession, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, gave you beyond the Jordan.

  • Deut 1:21
    71%

    21 See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up and take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

    13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself: 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and they shall inherit it forever.'

  • Deut 2:31
    71%

    31 Then the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it, that you may inherit his land.'

  • Deut 26:1
    71%

    1 When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it,

  • Num 34:2
    71%

    2 Command the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan with its boundaries:

  • 1 Chr 16:18
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    18 He said, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance."

  • Num 21:35
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    35 So they struck down Og, his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors. Then they took possession of his land.