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Brenton's Septuagint

Deuteronomy 6:19

to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Obedience;   Thompson Chain Reference - Canaan, Land of;   Heathen;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Frontlets;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Phylacteries ;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Enemy, Treatment of an;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
King James Version
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
Lexham English Bible
by driving out all of your enemies before you, just as Yahweh has promised.
English Standard Version
by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.
New Century Version
He will force all your enemies out as you go in, as the Lord has said.
New English Translation
and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the Lord said.
Amplified Bible
by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
New American Standard Bible
by driving out all your enemies from you, as the LORD has spoken.
Geneva Bible (1587)
To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lord hath sayd.
Legacy Standard Bible
by driving out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Complete Jewish Bible
expelling all your enemies ahead of you, as Adonai said.
Darby Translation
thrusting out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Easy-to-Read Version
And you will force out all your enemies, just as the Lord said.
George Lamsa Translation
And defeat all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Good News Translation
and you will drive out your enemies, as he promised.
Christian Standard Bible®
by driving out all your enemies before you, as the Lord has said.
Literal Translation
to cast out all your enemies from before you, as Jehovah has spoken.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that he maye chace out all thine enemies before the, as the LORDE hath sayde.
American Standard Version
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Bible in Basic English
To send out from before you all those who are against you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
To cast out all thine enemies before thee, as the Lorde hath sayde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
King James Version (1611)
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
English Revised Version
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
Berean Standard Bible
driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that he schulde do awey alle thin enemyes bifor thee, as he spak.
Young's Literal Translation
to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Update Bible Version
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Webster's Bible Translation
To cast out all thy enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
World English Bible
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
New King James Version
to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.
New Living Translation
You will drive out all the enemies living in the land, just as the Lord said you would.
New Life Bible
You will drive out of your way all who hate you, as the Lord has promised.
New Revised Standard
thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has promised.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, - As spake Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That he would destroy all thy enemies before thee, as he hath spoken.
Revised Standard Version
by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
by driving out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

Contextual Overview

17 Thou shalt by all means keep the commands of the Lord thy God, the testimonies, and the ordinances, which he commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that which is pleasing and good before the Lord thy God, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and inherit the good land, which the Lord sware to your fathers, 19 to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said. 20 And it shall come to pass when thy son shall ask thee at a future time, saying, What are the testimonies, and the ordinances, and the judgments, which the Lord our God has commanded us? 21 Then shalt thou say to thy son, We were slaves to Pharao in the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought us forth thence with a mighty hand, and with a high arm. 22 And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us. 23 And he brought us out thence to give us this land, which he sware to give to our fathers. 24 And the Lord charged us to observe all these ordinances; to fear the Lord our God, that it may be well with us for ever, that we may live, as even to-day. 25 And there shall be mercy to us, if we take heed to keep all these commands before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 23:28-30, Numbers 33:52, Numbers 33:53, Judges 2:1-3, Judges 3:1-4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:1 - the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
And it came to pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:8
And God said, I will blot out man whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for I am grieved that I have made them.
Genesis 6:9
But Noe found grace before the Lord God.
Genesis 6:15
Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:16
And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.
Genesis 8:17
And all the wild beasts as many as are with thee, and all flesh both of birds and beasts, and every reptile moving upon the earth, bring forth with thee: and increase ye and multiply upon the earth.
Psalms 36:6
Thy righteousness is as the mountains of God, thy judgments are as a great deep: O Lord, thou wilt preserve men and beasts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To cast out all thine enemies from before thee,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in their country:

as the Lord hath spoken; see Genesis 15:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.


 
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