Deuteronomy 1 · Verse 30

Deuteronomy 1:30

The 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;
Deuteronomy 1:30, King James Version

Deuteronomy 1:30 in other translations

BSBThe LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
WEBThe LORD your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
ASVJehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
YLTJehovah your God, who is going before you--He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes,
DARBYJehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
BBEThe Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
WebsterThe LORD your God who goeth before you; he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

What does Deuteronomy 1:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:22-33

22-33. ye came ... and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land--The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Nu 13:1). The issue proved disastrous to them, only through their own sin and folly.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 The Lord - shall fight for you - In the Targum of Onkelos, it is, the Word of the Lord shall fight for you. In a great number of places the Targums or Chaldee paraphrases use the term מימרא דיי meimera dayeya or Yehovah, the Word of the Lord, exactly in the same way in which St. John uses the term Λογος Logos in the first chapter of his Gospel. Many instances of this have already occurred.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:19-46

Moses reminds the Israelites of their march from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea, through that great and terrible wilderness. He shows how near they were to a happy settlement in Canaan. It will aggravate the eternal ruin of hypocrites, that they were not far from the kingdom of God. As if it were not enough that they were sure of their God before them, they would send men before them. Never any looked into the Holy Land…

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Deuteronomy 1:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430
הַהֹלֵ֣ךְha.ho.Lekh[is] the [one who] goesH1980
לִפְנֵיכֶ֔םlif.nei.Khem<to> before youH6440
ה֖וּאhu'heH1931
יִלָּחֵ֣םyi.la.Chemhe will fightH3898
לָכֶ֑םla.Khemfor you
כְּ֠כֹלKe.kholaccording to allH3605
אֲשֶׁ֨ר'a.SherthatH834
עָשָׂ֧ה'a.Sahhe didH6213
אִתְּכֶ֛ם'i.te.Khemwith youH854
בְּמִצְרַ֖יִםbe.mitz.Ra.yimin EgyptH4714
לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם\׃le.'ei.nei.Khemto eyes yourH5869

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:30

  • Exodus 14:14

    The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

  • Nehemiah 4:20

    In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.

  • Romans 8:37

    Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

  • Romans 8:31

    What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

  • Joshua 10:42

    And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 3:22

    Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God he shall fight for you.

  • 1 Samuel 17:45-46

    Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

  • Psalms 46:11

    The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

  • 2 Chronicles 14:11-12

    And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

  • Isaiah 8:9-10

    Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

  • Deuteronomy 20:1-4

    When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:8

    With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
he shall.
20:1-4; Ex 14:14,25; Jos 10:42; 1Sa 17:45,46; 2Ch 14:11,12; 32:8
Ne 4:20; Ps 46:11; Isa 8:9,10; Ro 8:31,37
according.
Ex 7:1-25; 15:1-27; Ps 78:11-13,43-51; 105:27-36

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 1:29

    Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

  • Deuteronomy 1:30

    The 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;

  • Deuteronomy 1:31

    And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

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Deuteronomy 1:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Jehová vuestro Dios, el cual va delante de vosotros, él peleará por vosotros, conforme á todas las cosas que hizo por vosotros en Egipto delante de vuestros ojos;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		l’ Éternel, votre Dieu, qui marche devant vous, combattra lui-même pour vous, selon tout ce qu’il a fait pour vous sous vos yeux, en Égypte,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Jehova, euer Gott, der vor euch herzieht, er wird für euch streiten, nach allem, was er in Ägypten vor euren Augen für euch getan hat,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dominus Deus, qui ductor est vester, pro vobis ipse pugnabit, sicut fecit in Ægypto cunctis videntibus.