Deuteronomy 6 · Verse 19

Deuteronomy 6:19

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 6:19, King James Version

Deuteronomy 6:19 in other translations

BSBdriving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
WEBto thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
ASVto thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
YLTto drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.
DARBYthrusting out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
BBETo send out from before you all those who are against you.
WebsterTo cast out all thy enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.

What does Deuteronomy 6:19 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:17-25

Moses gives charge to keep God's commandments. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. It is our interest, as well as our duty, to be religious. It will be our life. Godliness has the promise of the continuance and comfort of the life that now is, as far as it is for God's glory. It will be our righteousness. It is only through the Mediator we can be righteous before God. The knowledge of…

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Deuteronomy 6:19 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.

לַהֲדֹ֥ףla.ha.Dofto drive outH1920
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
אֹיְבֶ֖יךָ'o.ye.Vei.khaenemies yourH341
מִפָּנֶ֑יךָmi.pa.Nei.khafrom before youH6440
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖רka.'a.Sherjust asH834
דִּבֶּ֥רdi.Berhe has spokenH1696
יְהוָֽה\׃\ \סYah.wehYahwehH3068

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 6:19

  • Exodus 23:28-30

    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.

  • Numbers 33:52-53

    Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Judges 2:1-3

    And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

  • Judges 3:1-4

    Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal–hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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Ex 23:28-30; Nu 33:52,53; Jud 2:1-3; 3:1-4

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 6:18

    And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,

  • Deuteronomy 6:19

    To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.

  • Deuteronomy 6:20

    And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

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Deuteronomy 6:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Para que él eche á todos tus enemigos de delante de ti, como Jehová ha dicho.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
en chassant tous tes ennemis de devant toi, comme l’ Éternel l’a dit.
German
Elberfelder 1871
indem er alle deine Feinde vor dir ausstößt, so wie Jehova geredet hat.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
ut deleret omnes inimicos tuos coram te, sicut locutus est.