9For 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.
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There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)As to the date of this edict of Joshua, I. No mention at all is made of the place where this general assembly was held; some think it was at Timnath-serah, Joshua’s own city, where he lived, and whence, being old, he could not well remove. But it does not appear that he took so much state upon him; therefore it is more probable this meeting was at Shiloh, where the tabernacle of meeting was, and t…
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