Joshua 23:12-13

23:12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with ¹  these nations that remain near you, ²  and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them, ³  23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; ⁴  they will be a whip that tears ⁵  your sides and thorns that blind ⁶  your eyes until you disappear ⁷  from this good land the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua 13:6

13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ⁸  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ⁹ 

Exodus 23:30-31

23:30 Little by little ¹⁰  I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land. 23:31 I will set ¹¹  your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, ¹²  for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 33:2

33:2 I will send an angel ¹³  before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ¹⁴ 

Exodus 34:11

34:11 “Obey ¹⁵  what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out ¹⁶  before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Deuteronomy 11:23

11:23 then he ¹⁷  will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

¹ tn Heb “and hug.”

² tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”

³ tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”

⁴ tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

⁵ tn Heb “in.”

⁶ tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

⁷ tn Or “perish.”

⁸ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

⁹ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

¹⁰ tn The repetition expresses an exceptional or super-fine quality (see GKC 396 §123.e).

¹¹ tn The form is a perfect tense with vav consecutive.

¹² tn In the Hebrew Bible “the River” usually refers to the Euphrates (cf. NASB, NCV, NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT). There is some thought that it refers to a river Nahr el Kebir between Lebanon and Syria. See further W. C. Kaiser, Jr., “Exodus,” EBC 2:447; and G. W. Buchanan, The Consequences of the Covenant (NovTSup), 91-100.

¹³ sn This seems not to be the same as the Angel of the Presence introduced before.

¹⁴ sn See T. Ishida, “The Structure and Historical Implications of Lists of Pre-Israelite Nations,” Bib (1979): 461-90.

¹⁵ tn The covenant duties begin with this command to “keep well” what is being commanded. The Hebrew expression is “keep for you”; the preposition and the suffix form the ethical dative, adding strength to the imperative.

¹⁶ tn Again, this is the futur instans use of the participle.

¹⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.