King James Version
Judges 2:21 in the King James Version says “I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:” — study this verse from Judges chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:”
Judges 2:21 · KJV
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. corrupted: or, were corrupt ceased: Heb. let nothing fall of their
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. left: or, suffered
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“I also will not henceforth”
H3254to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
“drive out”
H3423to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish
“any”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“from before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“them of the nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
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