KJV King James Version
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.
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Joshua 23:10
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
WEB World English Bible
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
ASV American Standard Version
One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;
Surrounding context — Joshua 23
7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
9 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.
10 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.
11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
12 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:
13 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אִישׁ־H376 · ishmanאֶחָ֥דH259 · e.chadoneמִכֶּ֖םH9036 · khemyouיִרְדָּף־H7291 · ra.daphto pursueאָ֑לֶףH505 · e.lephthousandכִּ֣י׀H3588 · kiforיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗םH430 · e.lo.himGodה֚וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itהַנִּלְחָ֣םH3898 · la.chamto fightלָכֶ֔םH9036 · khemyouכַּאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichדִּבֶּ֥רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakלָכֶֽם׃H9036 · khemyou
Cross-references
Deuteronomy 32:30How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?Leviticus 26:8And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.Deuteronomy 3:22Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for you.Exodus 14:14The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.Psalm 35:1[A Psalm] of David. Plead [my cause], O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.Deuteronomy 20:4For the LORD your God [is] he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.Romans 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?Psalm 46:7The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah.Joshua 23:3And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you.Psalm 44:4-5Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.1 Samuel 14:6And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.Joshua 10:42And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.Exodus 23:27-33I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.Judges 15:15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.2 Samuel 23:8These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.Judges 7:19-22So Gideon, and the hundred men that [were] with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that [were] in their hands.Judges 3:31And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.1 Samuel 14:12-16And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
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