Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Judges 2:21 in other translations
| BSB | I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. |
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| WEB | I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them; |
| ASV | I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; |
| YLT | I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth, |
| DARBY | I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died; |
| BBE | 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; |
| Webster | I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died: |
What does Judges 2:21 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 2:6-23
We have a general idea of the course of things in Israel, during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as mean and miserable by forsaking God, as they would have been great and happy if they had continued faithful to him. Their punishment answered to the evil they had done. They served the gods of the nations round about them, even the meanest, and God made them serve the princes of the nations round…
Judges 2:21 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 2:21
- Joshua 23:13
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.
- Judges 2:3
Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
- Ezekiel 20:24
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- Judges 3:3
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
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Context
- Judges 2:20
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
- Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
- Judges 2:22
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Judges 2:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tampoco yo echaré más de delante de ellos á ninguna de aquestas gentes que dejó Josué cuando murió; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | moi aussi je ne déposséderai plus un homme devant eux, d’entre les nations que Josué laissa quand il mourut, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so werde auch ich hinfort niemand vor ihnen austreiben von den Nationen, die Josua übriggelassen hat, als er starb: |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et ego non delebo gentes, quas dimisit Josue, et mortuus est: |