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Deuteronomy 7:21

Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Contingencies;   Faith;   God;   God Continued...;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Synagogue;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Great;   Terrible;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Commandments, the 613;   Shekinah;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
King James Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
Lexham English Bible
You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God.
English Standard Version
You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
New Century Version
Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and people are afraid of him.
New English Translation
You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.
Amplified Bible
"You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
New American Standard Bible
"You are not to be terrified of them, because the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt not feare them: for the Lorde thy God is among you, a God mightie & dreadful.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not dread them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great and fearsome God.
Contemporary English Version
So don't be frightened when you meet them in battle. The Lord your God is great and fearsome, and he will fight at your side.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to be frightened of them, because Adonai your God is there with you, a God great and fearsome.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a God great and terrible.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't be afraid of them, because the Lord your God is with you. He is a great and awesome God.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is among you, a great and terrible God.
Good News Translation
So do not be afraid of these people. The Lord your God is with you; he is a great God and one to be feared.
Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.
Literal Translation
You shall not tremble before them, for Jehovah your God is among you, a mighty and fearful God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Be not thou afrayed of them: for the LORDE thy God is in the myddes of the, euen the mightie and fearfull God.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt not feare the: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God and a terrible.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt not bee affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God, and terrible.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not be wounded before them, because the Lord thy God in the midst of thee is a great and powerful God.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a great God and a terrible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not drede hem, for thi Lord is in the myddis of thee, grete God, and ferdful.
Young's Literal Translation
thou art not terrified by their presence, for Jehovah thy God [is] in thy midst, a God great and fearful.
Update Bible Version
You shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God [is] among you, a mighty God and terrible.
World English Bible
You shall not be scared of them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a great and awesome God.
New King James Version
You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you.
New Living Translation
"No, do not be afraid of those nations, for the Lord your God is among you, and he is a great and awesome God.
New Life Bible
You will not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a great and powerful God.
New Revised Standard
Have no dread of them, for the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a great and awesome God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not be affrighted at their presence, - for Yahweh thy God in thy midst is a Go great and to be revered.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not fear them, because the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, a God mighty and terrible:
Revised Standard Version
You shall not be in dread of them; for the LORD your God is in the midst of you, a great and terrible God.
THE MESSAGE
So don't be intimidated by them. God , your God, is among you— God majestic, God awesome. God , your God, will get rid of these nations, bit by bit. You won't be permitted to wipe them out all at once lest the wild animals take over and overwhelm you. But God , your God, will move them out of your way—he'll throw them into a huge panic until there's nothing left of them. He'll turn their kings over to you and you'll remove all trace of them under Heaven. Not one person will be able to stand up to you; you'll put an end to them all.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Contextual Overview

12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers. 13 And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you. 14 You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring. 15 And the Lord will take away from you all disease, and will not put on you any of the evil diseases of Egypt which you have seen, but will put them on your haters. 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you. 17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them? 18 Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt; 19 The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears. 20 And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off. 21 Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Numbers 9:20, Numbers 14:9, Numbers 14:14, Numbers 14:42, Numbers 16:3, Numbers 23:21, Joshua 3:10, 2 Chronicles 32:8, Psalms 46:5, Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Zechariah 2:10, Zechariah 2:11, 1 Corinthians 14:25

a mighty God: Deuteronomy 10:17, Deuteronomy 25:8, 1 Samuel 4:8, Nehemiah 1:5, Nehemiah 4:14, Nehemiah 9:32, Zechariah 12:2-5

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:14 - Is Psalms 47:2 - is terrible Psalms 99:3 - thy great Jeremiah 32:18 - the Great

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come; the earth is full of their violent doings, and now I will put an end to them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
Genesis 7:3
And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:4
For after seven days I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, for the destruction of every living thing which I have made on the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.
Genesis 7:15
They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.
Genesis 7:17
And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.
Genesis 7:20
The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.
Genesis 7:22
Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shall not be affrighted at them,.... At their numbers, nor at their gigantic stature:

for the Lord thy God is among you: in the tabernacle, in the holy of holies, which was in the midst of them, and besides would give proof of his powerful presence among them, in protecting them, and destroying their enemies;

a mighty God and terrible; mighty to save his people, and terrible to others.


 
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