Joshua 23:5

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 33:2 : 2 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 “Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Deut 11:23 : 23 then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
  • Josh 13:6 : 6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them, 13 know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.
  • Num 33:52-53 : 52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places. 53 You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
  • Exod 23:30-31 : 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 31 I will set your boundaries 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 will drive them out before you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 11:23-25
    3 verses
    84%

    23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

    24Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River(that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

    25Nobody will be able to resist you; the LORD your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.

  • Deut 9:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.

    4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 12:29
    81%

    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • Num 33:52-53
    2 verses
    81%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

    53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Deut 6:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,

    19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

  • Deut 31:3-5
    3 verses
    80%

    3As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

    5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • Deut 4:38
    80%

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Deut 7:22-24
    3 verses
    78%

    22He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

    24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.

  • Exod 23:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

    31I will set your boundaries 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 will drive them out before you.

  • Judg 11:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

    24You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.

  • Deut 11:31
    78%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

  • Deut 19:1
    78%

    1Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Josh 23:13
    76%

    13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.

  • Deut 1:21
    76%

    21Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

  • Deut 1:8
    76%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Deut 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–

    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Neh 9:24
    76%

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

  • Josh 23:9
    75%

    9“The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.

  • Josh 23:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3You saw everything the LORD your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the LORD your God fights for you.

    4See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.

  • Judg 6:9
    75%

    9I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

  • Ps 78:55
    75%

    55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • Deut 20:17
    75%

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Josh 1:15
    75%

    15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

  • Num 32:22
    75%

    22and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD’s sight.

  • Num 33:55
    75%

    55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

  • Lev 20:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

    24So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

  • Exod 34:11
    74%

    11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 7:17
    74%

    17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”

  • Deut 30:5
    74%

    5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

  • Exod 23:27
    73%

    27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

  • Exod 23:23
    73%

    23For 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 destroy them completely.

  • Deut 11:8
    73%

    8The Abundance of the Land of Promise Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

  • Josh 1:4
    73%

    4Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east(including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

  • Deut 3:22
    73%

    22Do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God will personally fight for you.”

  • Exod 33:2
    73%

    2I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.