For they had not obeyed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and profaned My Shabbatot. Their eyes went after their fathers’ idols.
Judges 2:21 - Tree of Life Version I also will no longer 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: |
For they had not obeyed My ordinances, but had rejected My statutes and profaned My Shabbatot. Their eyes went after their fathers’ idols.
know for certain that Adonai your God will no longer drive these nations out from before you. Instead they will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Adonai your God has given you.
Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
So Adonai your God, He Himself will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from before you, so you will possess their land, just as Adonai your God spoke to you.
Now it came to pass after the death of Joshua that Bnei-Yisrael inquired of Adonai saying, “Who will be the first to go up for us against the Canaanites to attack them?”
Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you, but they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
Now these are the nations that Adonai left, to test all Israel who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan.
These nations included the five Philistine lords, and all the Canaanites, Zidonians and the Hivites living in the hill country of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of Hamath.