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Deuteronomy 6:19

driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to chase all thine enemies from before thy face, as the Lord said.
English Revised Version
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
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

17You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has commanded you. 18Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land which the LORD your God swore to give your fathers, 19driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.20In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?" 21then you are to tell him, "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, 23but He brought us from there to lead us in and give us the land that He had sworn to our fathers. 24And the LORD commanded us to observe all these statutes and to fear the LORD our God, that we might always prosper and be preserved, as we are this day. 25And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God just as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness."

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
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:3
So the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years."
Genesis 6:8
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:9
This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:15
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 6:16
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."
Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your judgments like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

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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