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New Revised Standard

Judges 2:21

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Baal;   Israel;   The Topic Concordance - Covenant;   Disobedience;   Proof;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Canaanites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Angel of the Lord;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gentile;   Judges, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God;   Nations, the;   Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Persecution in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Judges (1);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Hebrew Names Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Yehoshua left when he died;
King James Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Lexham English Bible
I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,
English Standard Version
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
New Century Version
I will no longer defeat the nations who were left when Joshua died.
New English Translation
So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
Amplified Bible
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left [to be conquered] when he died,
New American Standard Bible
I in turn will no longer drive out from them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the nations, which Ioshua left when he dyed,
Legacy Standard Bible
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Contemporary English Version
so I'll stop helping them defeat their enemies. Israel still had a lot of enemies when Joshua died,
Complete Jewish Bible
in the future, I will not expel ahead of them any of the nations that Y'hoshua left when he died.
Darby Translation
I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Easy-to-Read Version
So I will no longer defeat the nations and clear the way for the Israelites. Those nations were still in this land when Joshua died, and I will let them stay in this land.
George Lamsa Translation
I also will no longer destroy any man from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died;
Good News Translation
I will no longer drive out any of the nations that were still in the land when Joshua died.
Literal Translation
I also from now on will not dispossess any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil from hence forth dryue out none of the Heythen, who Iosua lefte behynde him, wha he dyed,
American Standard Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Bible in Basic English
From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will hencefoorth not cast out before them one man of the nations whiche Iosuah left when he dyed:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
King James Version (1611)
I also will not henceforth driue out any from before them of the nations which Ioshua left when he died:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
therefore I will not any more cast out a man of the nations before their face, which Joshua the son of Naue left in the land. And the Lord left them,
English Revised Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Berean Standard Bible
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche Josue `lefte, and was deed;
Young's Literal Translation
I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,
Update Bible Version
I also will not, from now on, drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Webster's Bible Translation
I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
World English Bible
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
New King James Version
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
New Living Translation
I will no longer drive out the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
New Life Bible
I will stop driving away from them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I also, will no further dispossess a man from before them, - from among the nations which Joshua left remaining, when he died;
Douay-Rheims Bible
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:
Revised Standard Version
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

Contextual Overview

6 When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites all went to their own inheritances to take possession of the land. 7 The people worshiped the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel. 8 Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died at the age of one hundred ten years. 9 So they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. 10 Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them, who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped the Baals; 12 and they abandoned the Lord , the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord , and worshiped Baal and the Astartes. 14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring misfortune, as the Lord had warned them and sworn to them; and they were in great distress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 2:3, Judges 3:3, Joshua 23:13, Ezekiel 20:24

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:6 - them Judges 3:1 - the nations

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.
1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear that was at Saul's head and the water jar, and they went away. No one saw it, or knew it, nor did anyone awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
Job 4:13
Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds,
Proverbs 19:15
Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.
Daniel 8:18
As he was speaking to me, I fell into a trance, face to the ground; then he touched me and set me on my feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I also henceforth will not drive out and from before them,.... At least not as yet, not very soon nor hastily, as in Judges 2:23;

of the nations which Joshua left when he died; that is, unsubdued; which was owing either to the infirmities of old age coming upon him, which made him incapable of engaging further in war with the Canaanites; or to the sloth and indolence of the people, being weary of war, and not caring to prosecute it; or to want of men to cultivate any more land, and people other cities, than what they were possessed of; and chiefly this was owing to the providence of God, who had an end to answer hereby, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:21. I will not henceforth drive out — As a people, they never had personal courage, discipline, or hardihood, sufficient to stand before their enemies: the advantages they gained were by the peculiar interference of God. This they had while obedient; when they ceased to obey, his strong arm was no longer stretched out in their behalf; therefore their enemies continued to possess the land which God purposed to give them as their inheritance for ever.


 
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