because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
Judges 2:21 - Revised Standard Version I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I from now on will also not drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, American Standard Version (1901) I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; Common English Bible I in turn will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.” Catholic Public Domain Version And so, I will not destroy the nations that Joshua left behind when he died, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left, when he died: |
because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.
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, till you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
The Lord your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God promised you.
After the death of Joshua the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”
Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had no experience of any war in Canaan;
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites who dwelt on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance of Hamath.