Judges 2:21

Easy-to-Read Version

So I will no longer defeat the nations and clear the way for the Israelites. Those nations were still in this land when Joshua died, and I will let them stay in this land.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

Hebrew Names Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Yehoshua left when he died;

King James Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Lexham English Bible
I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,

English Standard Version
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

New Century Version
I will no longer defeat the nations who were left when Joshua died.

New English Translation
So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.

Amplified Bible
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left [to be conquered] when he died,

New American Standard Bible
I in turn will no longer drive out from them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the nations, which Ioshua left when he dyed,

Legacy Standard Bible
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Contemporary English Version
so I'll stop helping them defeat their enemies. Israel still had a lot of enemies when Joshua died,

Complete Jewish Bible
in the future, I will not expel ahead of them any of the nations that Y'hoshua left when he died.

Darby Translation
I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

George Lamsa Translation
I also will no longer destroy any man from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died;

Good News Translation
I will no longer drive out any of the nations that were still in the land when Joshua died.

Literal Translation
I also from now on will not dispossess any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil from hence forth dryue out none of the Heythen, who Iosua lefte behynde him, wha he dyed,

American Standard Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

Bible in Basic English
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;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I will hencefoorth not cast out before them one man of the nations whiche Iosuah left when he dyed:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

King James Version (1611)
I also will not henceforth driue out any from before them of the nations which Ioshua left when he died:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
therefore I will not any more cast out a man of the nations before their face, which Joshua the son of Naue left in the land. And the Lord left them,

English Revised Version
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Berean Standard Bible
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche Josue `lefte, and was deed;

Young's Literal Translation
I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,

Update Bible Version
I also will not, from now on, drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

Webster's Bible Translation
I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

World English Bible
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

New King James Version
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

New Living Translation
I will no longer drive out the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.

New Life Bible
I will stop driving away from them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

New Revised Standard
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I also, will no further dispossess a man from before them, - from among the nations which Joshua left remaining, when he died;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left when he died:

Revised Standard Version
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,

Contextual Overview

⁶ Then Joshua told the people to go home, so each tribe went to take their area of land. ⁷ The Israelites served the Lord as long as Joshua was alive, and they continued serving the Lord during the lifetimes of the elders who lived after Joshua had died. These old men had seen all the great things the Lord had done for the Israelites. ⁸ Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died at the age of 110 years. ⁹ The Israelites buried Joshua on the land that he had been given. That was at Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰ After that whole generation died, the next generation grew up. This new generation did not know about the Lord or what he had done for the Israelites. ¹¹ So the Israelites did something very evil before the Lord . They began serving the false god Baal. ¹² It was the Lord , the God their ancestors worshiped, who had brought the Israelites out of Egypt. But they stopped following him and began to worship the false gods of the people living around them. This made the Lord angry. ¹³ The Israelites stopped following the Lord and began worshiping Baal and Ashtoreth. ¹⁴ The Lord was angry with the Israelites, so he let enemies attack them and take their possessions. He let their enemies who lived around them defeat them. The Israelites could not protect themselves from their enemies. ¹⁵ When the Israelites went out to fight, they always lost. They lost because the Lord was not on their side. He had already warned them that they would lose if they served the gods of the people living around them. The Israelites suffered very much.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 2:3, Judges 3:3, Joshua 23:13, Ezekiel 20:24

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:6 - them Judges 3:1 - the nations

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
The sun began to go down and Abram got very sleepy. While he was asleep, a very terrible darkness came over him.

1 Samuel 26:12
So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul's head, and then David and Abishai left Saul's camp. No one knew what had happened. No one saw it. No one even woke up. Saul and all of his soldiers slept because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.

Job 4:13
Like a bad dream in the night, it ruined my sleep.

Job 33:15
He may speak in a dream, or in a vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep lying in their beds.

Proverbs 19:15
Laziness brings on sleep, and an appetite for rest brings on hunger.

Daniel 8:18
While Gabriel was speaking, I fell to the ground and went to sleep. It was a very deep sleep. Then Gabriel touched me and lifted me to my feet.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I also henceforth will not drive out and from before them,.... At least not as yet, not very soon nor hastily, as in Judges 2:23;

of the nations which Joshua left when he died; that is, unsubdued; which was owing either to the infirmities of old age coming upon him, which made him incapable of engaging further in war with the Canaanites; or to the sloth and indolence of the people, being weary of war, and not caring to prosecute it; or to want of men to cultivate any more land, and people other cities, than what they were possessed of; and chiefly this was owing to the providence of God, who had an end to answer hereby, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:21. I will not henceforth drive out — As a people, they never had personal courage, discipline, or hardihood, sufficient to stand before their enemies: the advantages they gained were by the peculiar interference of God. This they had while obedient; when they ceased to obey, his strong arm was no longer stretched out in their behalf; therefore their enemies continued to possess the land which God purposed to give them as their inheritance for ever.