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 Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
• Rom 8:31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• Heb 12:29for our God is a consuming fire.
• Deut 20:4for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”
• Deut 7:23–24But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.
• Josh 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
• Exod 23:29–31I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
• Mic 2:13He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.
• Deut 1:30Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
• 2 Th 1:8giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• Josh 3:14When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
• Isa 41:10–16Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Isa 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
• Rev 19:11–16I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
• 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;
• Nah 1:5–6The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, yes, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Eph 5:17Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
• Mark 7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.
• Matt 15:10He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.
• Deut 31:3–6Yahweh your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
• Isa 27:4Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
• Isa 30:27Behold, Yahweh’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
• Isa 30:30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
• Isa 30:33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.
• Deut 9:6Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.
• Deut 7:16You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

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