◄ Joshua 23:9 ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD has driven great and powerful nations out as you advanced, and no one has ever been able to stand against you.

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no one has been able to withstand you to this day.

Contemporary English Version
When you attacked powerful nations, the LORD made them run away, and no one has ever been able to stand up to you.

New American Bible
At your approach the LORD has dispossessed great and strong nations; not one has withstood you up to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.

For the Lord.

Joshua 23:5 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.

Joshua 21:43,44 And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it. . . .

Deuteronomy 11:23 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

no man

Joshua 1:5,8,9 No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee. . . .

Joshua 15:14 And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.

Context
Joshua's Charge to Leaders
…8But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day. 9And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.10One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.…
Cross References
Acts 7:45
Which also our fathers receiving, brought in with Jesus, into the possession of the Gentiles: whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David,

Exodus 23:23
And my angel shall go before thee, and shall bring thee in unto the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherexite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hevite, and the Jebuzite, whom I will destroy.

Exodus 23:30
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, till thou be increased, and dost possess the land.

Deuteronomy 7:24
And he shall deliver their kings into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy their names from under Heaven: no man shall be able to resist thee, until thou destroy them.

Joshua 23:8
But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.

Joshua 23:8
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