Joshua 23:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations from before you; but they shall be a snare and trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

Common English Bible

¹³ then know for certain that the LORD your God won’t keep on removing these nations before you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you. They will be a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you vanish from this fertile land that the LORD your God has given you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ even now, know this: that the Lord your God will not wipe them away before your face. Instead, they shall be a pit and a snare to you, and a stumbling block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, until he takes you away and scatters you from this excellent land, which he has delivered to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face: but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.

Joshua 23:13 Cross References

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

2 Kings 17:18

Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight; none was left but the tribe of Judah alone.

2 Kings 17:20

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel; he punished them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had banished them from his presence.

2 Kings 25:21

The king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile out of its land.

2 Kings 25:26

Then all the people, high and low, and the captains of the forces set out and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

Psalm 69:22

Let their table be a trap for them, a snare for their allies.

Exodus 10:7

Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long shall this fellow be a snare to us? Send the people away, so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”

Exodus 23:33

They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Exodus 34:12

Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.

Exodus 34:16

and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.

Ezekiel 28:24

The house of Israel shall no longer find a pricking brier or a piercing thorn among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.

Luke 21:24

they will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken away as captives among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the nations, until the times of the nations are fulfilled.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, fury, and great wrath and cast them into another land, as is now the case.’

Deuteronomy 30:18

I declare to you today that you shall certainly perish; you shall not live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

Judges 2:21

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