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God's Perfect Faithfulness
Commentators explain that this verse doesn't contradict later passages where Canaanites remain. God perfectly fulfilled His part of the promise by breaking the Canaanites' power and giving Israel the victory. The failure to completely drive them out was due to Israel's own inactivity and disobedience, not any failure on God's part.
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Joshua
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Albert Barnes
On Joshua 21:43–45
18th Century
Theologian
There is no real inconsistency between the declarations of these verses and the fact that the Israelites had not yet taken possession of all the ci…
John Gill
On Joshua 21:45
17th Century
Pastor
There failed not ought of any good thing
Not only every good thing in general, but every part and particular of that…
Matthew Henry
On Joshua 21:43–45
17th Century
Minister
God promised to give the land of Canaan to the seed of Abraham as a possession, and now they possessed it and dwelled there. And the promise of the…