Deuteronomy 11:23
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
24 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
- KJV
- Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
- WEB
- then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- ASV
- then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- DARBY
- then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you, and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- BLB
- then YHWH will drive out all these nations from before you⁺, and you⁺ will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- ÅB
- da skal Herren drive ut alle disse folk for dere, og dere skal jage bort folk som er større og tallrikere enn dere selv.
- OTB
- da vil Herren drive ut alle disse nasjonene foran dere, og dere vil ta i eie nasjoner større og mektigere enn dere.
- B1930
- da skal Herren drive ut alle disse folk for eder, og I skal jage bort folk som er større og tallrikere enn I selv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 4:38
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:1–2
When 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;
Read in contextExodus 23:27–30
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:22–23
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
Read in contextExodus 34:11
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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