“When the Lord your God has cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Parallel translations
- WEB When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
- KJV When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
- BSB When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- NASB “When the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,
- NLT “When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is giving you, you will take over their land and settle in their towns and homes.
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Quick answer
When God gives Israel the land and they settle in the conquered cities, certain provisions take effect. God's law anticipates and orders life in the promised land.
Overview
This verse sets the scene for the cities of refuge: once Israel dispossesses the nations and dwells in their towns, justice must be administered righteously. God's gift of the land comes with the responsibility to uphold His standards within it. The setting underscores that even a settled, blessed people need God's just provisions for dealing with bloodshed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Deut 12:29When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
- Deut 6:10It shall be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn’t build,
- Deut 17:14When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”;
- 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 12:1These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
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