The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
Parallel translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV And the Lord your God will expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight. So you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God promised you.
- NASB And the Lord your God, He will thrust them away from you and drive them from you; and you will take possession of their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.
- NLT This land will be yours, for the Lord your God will himself drive out all the people living there now. You will take possession of their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.
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Quick answer
Joshua promises that Yahweh will drive out the remaining nations before them. It anchors their future in God's faithfulness.
Overview
Joshua assures the people that God will complete the work He began, expelling the remaining nations so Israel can possess the land. The promise rests entirely on Yahweh's power and word. This confidence in God's faithfulness calls Israel to obedient cooperation with His purposes.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Deut 11:23then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
- Josh 13:6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
- Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exod 33:2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exod 23:30–31Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
- Num 33:52–53you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Josh 23:12–13For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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