to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Parallel translations
- KJV To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
- BSB driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
- NKJV to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.
- NASB by driving out all your enemies from you, as the Lord has spoken.
- NLT You will drive out all the enemies living in the land, just as the Lord said you would.
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Quick answer
God promises to drive out Israel's enemies before them, fulfilling his word. The conquest rests on divine power, not Israel's strength.
Overview
The casting out of the nations is God's own work, accomplishing what he had spoken. This continues the theme that the inheritance is a gift of grace tied to covenant promise. It also displays God's judgment on persistent wickedness, a sober reminder that the LORD is righteous as well as gracious.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Exod 23:28–30I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
- Num 33:52–53then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
- Judg 3:1–4Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Judg 2:1–3Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
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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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