King James Version
Joshua 23:11 in the King James Version says “Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. yourselves: Heb. your souls” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 23 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. yourselves: Heb. your souls”
Joshua 23:11 · KJV
For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day. For the LORD: or, Then the LORD will drive
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. yourselves: Heb. your souls
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“heed”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
“Take good”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
“therefore unto yourselves”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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