The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.
And the Lord your God he shall expel them from before you,.... That is, such of them as yet remained among them: and drive them from out of your sight; the same thing expressed by different words, for the confirmation of it: and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you; all which is to be understood on condition...
BY PROMISES. (Jos 23:5-11) the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, as the Lord your God hath promised you, &c.--The actual possessions which God had given were a pledge of the complete fulfilment of His promise in giving them the parts of the country still unconquered.
Commenting on Joshua 23:5-11
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. (b) Which yet remain and are not overcome, as in .