The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
- KJV The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
- BSB The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
- NASB The Lord your God, who goes before you, will Himself fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
- NLT The Lord your God is going ahead of you. He will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt.
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Moses reminded them that God Himself goes before them and will fight for them, as He did in Egypt. Past deliverance was the ground of present confidence.
Overview
Moses points to God as the divine Warrior who 'goes before' His people and fights on their behalf, recalling the exodus from Egypt as proof. Israel's confidence was to rest on God's demonstrated power, not their own. This portrait of the LORD fighting for His people anticipates the greater deliverance won by Christ, who through His death and resurrection conquered sin, death, and the powers of darkness for us.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Exod 14:14Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”
- Neh 4:20Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”
- Rom 8:37No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Josh 10:42Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
- Deut 3:22You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God himself fights for you.”
- 1 Sam 17:45–46Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- Ps 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
- Isa 8:9–10Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!
- 2 Chr 14:11–12Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
- 2 Chr 32:8An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- Deut 20:1–4When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
- Exod 14:25He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”
- Ps 78:11–13They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
- Exod 7:1–25Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
- Exod 15:1–27Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
- Ps 105:27–36They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
- Ps 78:43–51how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
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