then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
Parallel translations
- WEB then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- KJV Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
- NKJV then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
- NASB then the Lord will dispossess all these nations from you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
- NLT Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land.
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Quick answer
Then God will drive out nations greater and mightier than Israel before them. Victory comes from God, not Israel's strength.
Overview
Moses promises that God Himself will dispossess stronger nations for His people. The conquest would be God's work, not the fruit of Israel's might. This assurance that God fights for His people foreshadows the victory Christ wins for those He saves.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Deut 4:38to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
- Deut 9:1Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Exod 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exod 23:27–30I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run.
- Deut 7:1–2When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Deut 7:22–23The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
- Deut 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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