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.
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.
- 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.
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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 you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
- Deut 9:1Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,
- Exod 34:11Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exod 23:27–30I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
- Deut 7:1–2When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Deut 7:22–23Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.
- Deut 9:5Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to 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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