Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
Parallel translations
- WEB then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- BSB then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 7
- Deut 4:38To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
- Deut 9:1Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
- Exod 34:11Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exod 23:27–30I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
- Deut 7:1–2When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
- Deut 7:22–23And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- Deut 9:5Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, 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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