Deuteronomy 11:23
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
Deuteronomy 11:23 in other translations
| BSB | then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you; |
| DARBY | then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you, and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves. |
| BBE | Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves. |
| Webster | Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. |
What does Deuteronomy 11:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 11:18-25
18-25. lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them--(See on De 6:1).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 11:18-25
Let all be directed by the three rules here given. 1. Let our hearts be filled with the word of God. There will not be good practices in the life, unless there be good thoughts, good affections, and good principles in the heart. 2. Let our eyes be fixed upon the word of God, having constant regard to it as the guide of our way, as the rule of our work, Psa 119:30. 3. Let our tongues be employed about the word of…
Deuteronomy 11:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 11:23
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 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,
- Deuteronomy 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; And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
- Exodus 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. And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. I 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. By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
- Deuteronomy 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. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
- Exodus 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.
- Deuteronomy 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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Context
- Deuteronomy 11:22
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;
- Deuteronomy 11:23
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
- Deuteronomy 11:24
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.
Deuteronomy 11:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Jehová también echará todas estas gentes de delante de vosotros y poseeréis gentes grandes y más fuertes que vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | l’ Éternel dépossédera toutes ces nations devant vous; et vous prendrez possession de nations plus grandes et plus fortes que vous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so wird Jehova alle diese Nationen vor euch austreiben; und ihr werdet Nationen in Besitz nehmen, größer und stärker als ihr. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | disperdet Dominus omnes gentes istas ante faciem vestram, et possidebitis eas, quæ majores et fortiores vobis sunt. |