Judges 2:23
World English Bible (WEB)
So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
In context
21 I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;
22 that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep the LORD’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
23 So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
Judges 2:23 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.
- KJV King James Version
- Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So Jehovah left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out speedily, neither did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.