And just as I plan to do to them, I will do to you.’ ”
Parallel translations
- WEB It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.”
- KJV Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
- BSB And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
- NKJV Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”
- NLT And I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
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Quick answer
God warns that if Israel disobeys, He will do to them what He purposed to do to the Canaanites. Persistent unfaithfulness would bring the same judgment of being driven from the land.
Overview
This sobering verse ties Israel's tenure in the land to covenant faithfulness, and it was fulfilled in the exiles of Israel and Judah. God shows no partiality; the privilege of being His people did not exempt them from judgment for the same sins He judged in others. It underscores that grace received calls for obedience, and warns against presuming on covenant standing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Deut 28:63It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deut 29:28Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”
- Josh 23:15–16It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
- Lev 20:23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Lev 18:28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Luke 21:23–24Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
- Ezek 33:24–29Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
- 2 Chr 36:17–20Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.
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In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.
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