Deuteronomy 9:3

The LORD himself goes before Israel as a devouring fire to destroy the nations quickly. God is the true conqueror who guarantees the victory.

Cross-references · 26

• Deut 4:24For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
• Rom 8:31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
• Heb 12:29For our God is a consuming fire.
• Deut 20:4For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
• Deut 7:23–24But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
• Josh 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
• Exod 23:29–31I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
• Mic 2:13The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
• Deut 1:30The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
• 2 Th 1:8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Josh 3:14And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;
• Isa 41:10–16Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
• Rev 19:11–16And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
• 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;
• Nah 1:5–6The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Mark 7:14And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
• Matt 15:10And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
• Deut 31:3–6The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
• Isa 27:4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
• Isa 30:27Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
• Isa 30:30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
• Isa 30:33For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Deut 9:6Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
• Deut 7:16And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

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