But if you fail to drive out the people who live in the land, those who remain will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land where you live.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had already been commanded (see the marginal references); and Nu…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

But if you will not drive out. We have elsewhere seen why God’s wrath was so greatly aroused against those nations that He desired them to…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land
before you
Should be remiss…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Now that they were to pass over Jordan, they were entering again into temptation to follow idols; and they are threatened that, if they spared eith…