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Revised Standard Version

Joshua 21:45

Not one of all the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Providence of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Quotations;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Good;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Joshua, Book of;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 1;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
None of the good promises the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed. Everything was fulfilled.
Hebrew Names Version
There failed not anything of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Yisra'el; all came to pass.
King James Version
There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Lexham English Bible
And nothing failed from all the good things that Yahweh promised to the house of Israel; everything came to pass.
English Standard Version
Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
New Century Version
He kept every promise he had made to the Israelites; each one came true.
New English Translation
Not one of the Lord 's faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.
Amplified Bible
Not one of the good promises which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel failed; all had come to pass.
New American Standard Bible
Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; everything came to pass.
Geneva Bible (1587)
There failed nothing of all the good things, which the Lord hath sayde vnto the house of Israel, but all came to passe.
Legacy Standard Bible
Not one promise of the good promises which Yahweh had promised to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord promised to do many good things for Israel, and he kept his promise every time.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the leaders of the ancestral clans of the L'vi'im approached El‘azar the cohen, Y'hoshua the son of Nun and the leaders of the ancestral clans of the tribes of the people of Isra'el. It was at Shiloh in the land of Kena‘an that they spoke to them; they said, " Adonai ordered through Moshe that we be given cities to live in, with the surrounding open land for our livestock." So out of their inheritance the people of Isra'el gave the L'vi'im the following cities with the surrounding open land: The lot came out for the families of the K'hati. The descendants of Aharon the cohen, who were of the L'vi'im, received by lot thirteen cities from the tribes of Y'hudah, Shim‘on and Binyamin. The rest of the descendants of K'hat received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Efrayim and Dan and the half-tribe of M'nasheh. The descendants of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Yissakhar, Asher, Naftali and the half-tribe of M'nasheh in Bashan. The descendants of M'rari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribes of Re'uven, Gad and Z'vulun. The people of Isra'el gave by lot to the L'vi'im these cities with the surrounding open land, as Adonai had ordered through Moshe. They gave from the tribe of the descendants of Y'hudah and from the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on these cities here mentioned by name; they were for the descendants of Aharon, of the families of the K'hati, who were among the descendants of Levi; because theirs was the first lot. They gave them: Kiryat-Arba — this Arba was the father of ‘Anak — (that is, Hevron), in the hills of Y'hudah, with the surrounding open land; but the fields and villages of the city they gave to Kalev the son of Y'funeh as his possession. Thus to the descendants of Aharon the cohen they gave: Hevron with its surrounding open land, already a city of refuge for the killer; Livnah with its surrounding open land; Yatir with its surrounding open land; Esht'moa with its surrounding open land; Holon with its surrounding open land; D'vir with its surrounding open land; ‘Ayin with its surrounding open land, Yutah with its surrounding open land and Beit-Shemesh with its surrounding open land — nine cities out of these two tribes. Out of the tribe of Binyamin: Giv‘on with its surrounding open land, Geva with its surrounding open land, ‘Anatot with its surrounding open land and ‘Almon with its surrounding open land — four cities. All the cities of the descendants of Aharon, the cohanim, numbered thirteen cities with their surrounding open land. The families of the descendants of K'hat, who were L'vi'im, that is, the rest of the descendants of K'hat, received the cities of their lot. Out of the tribe of Efrayim they gave them: Sh'khem with its surrounding open land, in the hills of Efrayim, the city of refuge for the killer; Gezer with its surrounding open land; Kivtzayim with its surrounding open land and Beit-Horon with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Dan: Elt'ke with its surrounding open land, Gib'ton with its surrounding open land, Ayalon with its surrounding open land and Gat-Rimmon with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the half-tribe of M'nasheh: Ta‘nakh with its surrounding open land and Gat-Rimmon with its surrounding open land — two cities. All the cities of the families of the rest of the descendants of K'hat numbered ten with their surrounding open land. To the descendants of Gershon, of the families of the L'vi'im, out of the half-tribe of M'nasheh they gave: Golan in Bashan with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; and B'esht'rah with its surrounding open land — two cities. Out of the tribe of Yissakhar: Kishyon with its surrounding open land, Dovrat with its surrounding open land, Yarmut with its surrounding open land and ‘Ein-Ganim with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Asher: Mishal with its surrounding open land, ‘Avdon with its surrounding open land, Helkat with its surrounding open land and Rechov with its surrounding open land — four cities. Out of the tribe of Naftali: Kedesh in the Galil with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; Hammot-Dor with its surrounding open land; and Kartan with its surrounding open land — three cities. All the cities of the Gershuni according to their families were thirteen cities with their surrounding open land. To the families of the descendants of M'rari, the rest of the L'vi'im, out of the tribe of Z'vulun: Yokne‘am with its surrounding open land, Kartah with its surrounding open land, Dimnah with its surrounding open land and Nahalal with its surrounding open land — four cities. {Out of the tribe of Re'uven: Betzer with its surrounding open land, Yachtzah with its surrounding open land, K'demot with its surrounding open land and Mefa‘at with its surrounding open land — four cities.}* Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramot in Gil‘ad with its surrounding open land, the city of refuge for the killer; Machanayim with its surrounding open land; Heshbon with its surrounding open land and Ya‘zer with its surrounding open land — four cities in all. All these were the cities of the descendants of M'rari according to their families, the rest of the families of the L'vi'im; their lot totaled twelve cities. All the cities of the L'vi'im, forty-eight cities with their surrounding open land, are to be in among the lands possessed by the people of Isra'el — these cities, each with its surrounding open land; thus is it to be with all these cities. So Adonai gave Isra'el all the land which he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and lived in it. Then Adonai gave them rest all around, according to everything he had sworn to their ancestors. Not a man from all their enemies stood against them; Adonai handed all their enemies over to them. Not one good thing that Adonai had spoken of to the household of Isra'el failed to happen; it all took place.
Darby Translation
There failed nothing of all the good things that Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel: all came to pass.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord kept every promise that he made to the Israelites. There were no promises that he failed to keep. Every promise came true.
George Lamsa Translation
There failed not one of the good things which the LORD has spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Good News Translation
The Lord kept every one of the promises that he had made to the people of Israel.
Literal Translation
Nor did fail a word from any good word which Jehovah had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And their myssed nothinge of all the good that the LORDE had promysed vnto the house of Israel, it came euery whyt.
American Standard Version
There failed not aught of any good thing which Jehovah had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
There scaped nothing of al the good thinges which the Lord had sayd vnto ye house of Israel, but all came to passe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="jos.21.1" class="versetxt"> Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of the LORD, these cities with the open land about them. And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities. And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with the open land about them, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses. And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name. And they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak--the same is Hebron--in the hill-country of Judah, with the open land round about it. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with the open land about it; and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it; and Holon with the open land about it, and Debir with the open land about it; and Ain with the open land about it, and Juttah with the open land about it, and Beth-shemesh with the open land about it; nine cities out of those two tribes. And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with the open land about it, Geba with the open land about it; Anathoth with the open land about it, and Almon with the open land about it; four cities. All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with the open land about them. And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. And they gave them Shechem with the open land about it in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with the open land about it; and Kibzaim with the open land about it, and Beth-horon with the open land about it; four cities. And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with the open land about it, Gibbethon with the open land about it; Aijalon with the open land about it, Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; four cities. And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with the open land about it, and Gath-rimmon with the open land about it; two cities. All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with the open land about them. And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities. And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with the open land about it, Dobrath with the open land about it; Jarmuth with the open land about it, En-gannim with the open land about it; four cities. And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with the open land about it, Abdon with the open land about it; Helkath with the open land about it, and Rehob with the open land about it; four cities. And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with the open land about it, and Kartan with the open land about it; three cities. All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with the open land about them. And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with the open land about it, and Kartah with the open land about it; Dimnah with the open land about it, Nahalal with the open land about it; four cities. And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with the open land about it; Heshbon with the open land about it, Jazer with the open land about it; four cities in all. All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities. All the cities of the Levites--forty and eight cities with the open land about them--shall be in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, even these cities, every one with the open land round about it; thus it shall be with all these cities. So the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which He swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that He swore unto their fathers; and there stood not a man of all their enemies against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. There failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
King James Version (1611)
There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken vnto the house of Israel: all came to passe.
English Revised Version
There failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Berean Standard Bible
Not one of all the LORD's good promises to the house of Israel failed; everything was fulfilled.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe nether o word, which he bihiyte him silf to yyue to hem, was voide, but alle wordis weren fillid in werkis.
Young's Literal Translation
there hath not fallen a thing of all the good thing which Jehovah spake unto the house of Israel -- the whole hath come.
Update Bible Version
There did not fail anything of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Webster's Bible Translation
There failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
World English Bible
There failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
New King James Version
Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
New Living Translation
Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true.
New Life Bible
Every good promise which the Lord had made to the people of Israel came true.
New Revised Standard
Not one of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There failed not a thing, out of all the good things, whereof Yahweh had spoken unto the house of Israel, - the whole, came to pass.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-43) Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto them, was made void, but all came to pass.
THE MESSAGE
Not one word failed from all the good words God spoke to the house of Israel. Everything came out right.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.

Contextual Overview

43 Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and having taken possession of it, they settled there. 44 And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers; not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 Not one of all the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 23:14, Joshua 23:15, Numbers 23:19, 1 Kings 8:56, 1 Corinthians 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 5:24, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 10:19 - And the Genesis 35:12 - the land Genesis 35:22 - Now the sons Joshua 2:24 - Truly the Lord Joshua 3:10 - drive out from Joshua 11:23 - And the land Joshua 24:13 - And I 1 Kings 8:15 - hath Nehemiah 9:24 - So the Psalms 78:55 - cast Psalms 136:21 - General Isaiah 42:9 - the former Isaiah 48:3 - and I Ezekiel 48:29 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There failed not ought of any good thing,.... Not only every good thing in general, but every part and particular of that good thing; that, with all that was included in it, or were appendages to it, or circumstances of it:

which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel; as of their deliverance out of Egypt, and passage through the Red sea and wilderness, with all conveniences for them therein; so of their passage through Jordan, success of their arms, the conquest of their enemies, possession of their land, a land flowing with milk and honey:

all came to pass; exactly, precisely, and punctually, even everything relative to their temporal and spiritual good: so all that God promises to his spiritual Israel, with respect to their present comfort or everlasting happiness, all is exactly fulfilled, all his promises in Christ are yea and amen.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is no real inconsistency between the declarations of these verses and the fact that the Israelites had not as yet possessed themselves of all the cities allotted to the various tribes Judges 1:21-36 - nor did at any time, subdue the whole extent of country promised to them Numbers 34:1-12. God had fulfilled all His part of the covenant. It was no part of His purpose that the native population should be annihilated suddenly Deuteronomy 7:22; but they were delivered into the hand of Israel, and their complete dispossession could have been effected at any time by that divine aid which was never wanting when sought. At the time referred to in the text, the Canaanites were discouraged, broken in strength, holding fast in isolated spots only up and down the land in the very midst of the tribes of God’s people. The conquest of Canaan was already “ex parte Dei” a perfect work; just as in the New Testament the triumph of the individual Christian and of the Christian Church in their warfare is often spoken of as accomplished in view of the divine will that it should be so, and of divine grace that it may be so. It was therefore, only the inertness and pusillanimity of the Israelites which prevented the completion of the conquest when the allotment of Canaan was made by Joshua; as it was their subsequent backslidings which caused God to turn the tide of victory against them and even to cast them out of the land promised to their forefathers and actually won in the campaigns of Joshua. See the introduction to the Book of Joshua.


 
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