Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. New Living Translation “For the LORD has driven out great and powerful nations for you, and no one has yet been able to defeat you. English Standard Version For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. Berean Standard Bible The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. King James Bible For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day. New King James Version For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day. New American Standard Bible For the LORD has driven out great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no one has stood against you to this day. NASB 1995 “For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. NASB 1977 “For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. Legacy Standard Bible For Yahweh has dispossessed great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. Amplified Bible For the LORD has driven out great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no man has been able to stand [in opposition] before you to this day. Christian Standard Bible “The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and no one is able to stand against you to this day. Holman Christian Standard Bible The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and no one is able to stand against you to this day. American Standard Version For Jehovah hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto this day. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And LORD JEHOVAH has destroyed from before you great and fortified nations, and a man has not stood against you until today Brenton Septuagint Translation And the Lord shall destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until 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. 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. English Revised Version For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto this day. GOD'S WORD® Translation The LORD has forced important and powerful nations out of your way. Not one person has ever been able to stand up to you. 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. International Standard Version because the LORD has expelled great and strong nations ahead of you. Now as for you, not a single man has been able to oppose you right to this day. JPS Tanakh 1917 wherefore the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and mighty; but as for you, no man hath stood against you unto this day. Literal Standard Version And YHWH is dispossessing great and mighty nations from before you; as for you, none has stood in your presence until this day; Majority Standard Bible The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. New American Bible At your approach the LORD has dispossessed great and strong nations; not one has withstood you up to this day. NET Bible "The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day. 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. New Heart English Bible For the LORD has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. Webster's Bible Translation For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you to this day. World English Bible “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. Young's Literal Translation And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Joshua's Charge to Leaders…8Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. 9The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. 10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.… Cross References Acts 7:45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David, Exodus 23:23 For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them. Exodus 23:30 Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land. Deuteronomy 7:24 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them. Joshua 23:8 Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. Treasury of Scripture For the LORD has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. For the Lord. Joshua 23:5 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. Joshua 21:43,44 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein… Deuteronomy 11:23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. no man Joshua 1:5,8,9 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee… Joshua 15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. Jump to Previous Able Dispossessed Driven Mighty Nations Powerful Presence Stand Stood Strong Way Wherefore WithstandJump to Next Able Dispossessed Driven Mighty Nations Powerful Presence Stand Stood Strong Way Wherefore WithstandJoshua 23 1. Joshua's exhortation before his death3. by former benefits 5. by promises 11. and by threatenings (9) No man hath been able to stand before you.--Comp. Joshua 1:5.Verse 9. - For the Lord your God hath driven out. So the Masora and the LXX. The Vulgate and the margin of our version translate by the future. So Luther also. The next verse is undeniably future. An appeal to their experience, which did not fail (see Joshua 24:31) to be effective as long as the memory of these things was fresh in their minds. So in the Prayer Book of the Church of England we find the appeal, "O God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them." And the passage (Psalm 44:1-3), from which the idea of this petition is taken, is an allusion to this speech of Joshua. And we often, in times of faintheartedness or sloth, need to be thus reminded of the moral and spiritual victories of the true Israel, under the true Joshua the Saviour, over the enemies with whom we are forbidden to make a compromise. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew The LORDיְהוָה֙ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel has driven out וַיּ֤וֹרֶשׁ (way·yō·w·reš) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin great גְּדֹלִ֣ים (gə·ḏō·lîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent and powerful וַעֲצוּמִ֑ים (wa·‘ă·ṣū·mîm) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 6099: Powerful, numerous nations גּוֹיִ֖ם (gō·w·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts before you, מִפְּנֵיכֶ֔ם (mip·pə·nê·ḵem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face and to עַ֖ד (‘aḏ) Preposition Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while this הַזֶּֽה׃ (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that day הַיּ֥וֹם (hay·yō·wm) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day no לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no one אִישׁ֙ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person can stand עָ֤מַד (‘ā·maḏ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations against you. בִּפְנֵיכֶ֔ם (bip̄·nê·ḵem) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face Links Joshua 23:9 NIVJoshua 23:9 NLT Joshua 23:9 ESV Joshua 23:9 NASB Joshua 23:9 KJV Joshua 23:9 BibleApps.com Joshua 23:9 Biblia Paralela Joshua 23:9 Chinese Bible Joshua 23:9 French Bible Joshua 23:9 Catholic Bible OT History: Joshua 23:9 For Yahweh has driven great and strong (Josh. 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