to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Parallel translations
- KJV To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
- BSB driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
- NKJV to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.
- NASB by driving out all your enemies from you, as the Lord has spoken.
- NLT You will drive out all the enemies living in the land, just as the Lord said you would.
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Cross-references · 4
- Exod 23:28–30I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- Num 33:52–53then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
- Judg 3:1–4Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Judg 2:1–3Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
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