Judges 2:23 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 2:23

That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

So Jehovah left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

KJV

Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Cassian

CONFERENCE 13.14 (435)

Divine grace ever stirs up the will of human beings, not so as to protect and defend it in all things in such a way as to cause it not to fight by its own efforts against its spiritual adversaries, the victor over whom may set it down to God's grace, and the vanquished to his own weakness, and thus learn that his hope is always not in his own courage but in the divine assistance and that he must ever fly to his Protector.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Our Lord Jesus, though he spoiled principalities and powers, yet did not complete his victory at first. We see not yet all things put under him; there are remains of Satan's interest in the church, as there were of the Canaanites in the land; but our Joshua lives for ever, and will in the great day perfect his conquest.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Without driving them out hastily - Had God expelled all the ancient inhabitants at once, we plainly see, from the subsequent conduct of the people, that they would soon have abandoned his worship, and in their prosperity forgotten their deliverer. He drove out at first as many as were necessary in order to afford the people, as they were then, a sufficiency of room to settle in; as the tribes increased in population, they were to extend themselves to the uttermost of their assigned borders, and expel all the remaining inhabitants.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּנַּ֤ח	vai.ya.Nach	and he left	H5117 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַגּוֹיִ֣ם	ha.go.Yim	the nations	H1471 →
הָאֵ֔לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
לְבִלְתִּ֥י	le.vil.Ti	to not	H1115 →
הוֹרִישָׁ֖ם	ho.ri.Sham	to dispossess them	H3423 →
מַהֵ֑ר	ma.Her	quickly	H4118 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
נְתָנָ֖ם	ne.ta.Nam	he gave them	H5414 →
בְּיַד־	be.yad-	in [the] hand of	H3027 →
יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ׃ פ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →