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Joshua 21:44

And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

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ASV

And Jehovah gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their hand.

KJV

And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיָּ֨נַחvai.Ya.nachand he gave restH5117 →
יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
לָהֶם֙la.Hemto <the> them
מִסָּבִ֔יבmi.sa.Vivfrom round aboutH5439 →
כְּכֹ֥לke.Kholaccording to allH3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-thatH834 →
נִשְׁבַּ֖עnish.Ba'he had swornH7650 →
לַאֲבוֹתָ֑םla.'a.vo.Tamto ancestors theirH1 →
וְלֹא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
עָ֨מַד'A.madhe stoodH5975 →
אִ֤ישׁ'ishanyoneH376 →
בִּפְנֵיהֶם֙bif.nei.Hemin faces theirH6440 →
מִכָּל־mi.kolfrom allH3605 →
אֹ֣יְבֵיהֶ֔ם'o.ye.vei.Hemenemies theirH341 →
אֵ֚ת'et<obj.>H853 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
אֹ֣יְבֵיהֶ֔ם'o.ye.vei.Hemenemies theirH341 →
נָתַ֥ןna.Tanhe gaveH5414 →
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
בְּיָדָֽם׃be.ya.Damin hand theirH3027 →

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Exodus 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”Joshua 11:23So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.Hebrews 4:9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Deuteronomy 31:3–5The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.Joshua 23:1A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,Exodus 23:31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.Deuteronomy 7:22–24The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.Acts 9:31Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.Deuteronomy 2:33And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.Joshua 22:9So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.Joshua 22:4And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.Joshua 1:13“Remember what Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you when he said, ‘The LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.’Joshua 1:15until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”1 Samuel 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”2 Chronicles 13:16So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hands.2 Samuel 7:1After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.Joshua 11:8and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.

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