Joshua 23:5
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 you.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and dispossess them from your sight, so you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
And Jehovah{H3068} your God,{H430} he will thrust{H1920} them out from before{H6440} you, and drive{H3423} them from out of your sight;{H6440} and ye shall possess{H3423} their land,{H776} as Jehovah{H3068} your God{H430} spake{H1696} unto you.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
And the LORD{H3068} your God{H430}, he shall expel{H1920}{(H8799)} them from before{H6440} you, and drive{H3423}{(H8689)} them from out of your sight{H6440}; and ye shall possess{H3423}{(H8804)} their land{H776}, as the LORD{H3068} your God{H430} hath promised{H1696}{(H8765)} unto you.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE youre God shal thrust them out before you, and dryue them awaye from you, that ye maye haue their londe in possession, as the LORDE youre God hath promysed you.
Geneva Bible (1560)
And the Lord your God shall expell them before you, and cast them out of your sight, and ye shall possesse their land, as the Lord your God hath said vnto you.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
And the Lorde your God shall expel them before you, & cast them from out of your sight, and ye shall conquer their lande, as the Lord your God hath sayd vnto you.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Yahweh your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
`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,
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
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.
World English Bible (2000)
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.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
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.
Referenced Verses
- Exod 33:2 : 2 And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Exod 34:11 : 11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Deut 11:23 : 23 Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
- Josh 13:6 : 6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, I will drive out from before the children of Israel; only divide it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
- Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you: 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
- Num 33:52-53 : 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places: 53 and you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
- Exod 23:30-31 : 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land. 31 And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Deut 11:23-253 verses84%
23 Then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
24 Every place where the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall be your territory.
25 No man shall be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear and dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as He has said to you.
- Deut 9:3-53 verses82%
3 Understand therefore today, that the LORD your God is the one who goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before you: so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you.
4 Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out from before you, saying, Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD drives them out from before you.
5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;
- Num 33:52-532 verses81%
52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:
53 and you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
- Deut 6:18-192 verses81%
18 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore to your fathers,
19 To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
- Deut 31:3-53 verses80%
3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.
4 And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.
5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.
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38 To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
- Deut 7:22-243 verses78%
22 And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little: you may not consume them all at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.
23 But the LORD your God shall deliver them to you, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they are destroyed.
24 And he shall deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall destroy their name from under heaven: no man will be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.
- Exod 23:30-312 verses78%
30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
31 And I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
- Judg 11:23-242 verses78%
23 So now the LORD God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?
24 Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God drives out from before us, them will we possess.
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31 For you shall pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you shall possess it and dwell in it.
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1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;
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13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
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21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your fathers has told you; do not fear, neither be discouraged.
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8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them and to their descendants after them.
- Deut 7:1-22 verses76%
1 When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess it, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
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24 So the children entered and possessed the land; You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them as they wished.
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9 For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations: but as for you, no one has been able to stand before you to this day.
- Josh 23:3-42 verses75%
3 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is the one who has fought for you.
4 Behold, I have allotted to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea westward.
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9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
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55 He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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17 But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:
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15 until the LORD has given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.
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22 And the land is subdued before the LORD: then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
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55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
- Lev 20:23-242 verses75%
23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from other people.
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11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
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17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?
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5 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
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27 I will send my fear before you and will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
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23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.
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8 Therefore, you shall keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you go to possess;
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4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.
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22 You shall not fear them, for the LORD your God shall fight for you.
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2 And I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: