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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Contemporary English Version

Deuteronomy 8:20

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Obedience;   Pride;   The Topic Concordance - Disobedience;   Forgetting;   Idolatry;   Perishing;   Service;   Worship;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Face;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
As the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
King James Version
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
As with the nations that Yahweh is destroying before you, so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God.
English Standard Version
Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
New Century Version
Just as the Lord destroyed the other nations for you, you can be destroyed if you do not obey the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.
Amplified Bible
"Like the nations which the LORD causes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you would not listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible
"Like the nations that the LORD eliminates from you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before you, so ye shall perish, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Like the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish, because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Complete Jewish Bible
You will perish just like the nations that Adonai is causing to perish ahead of you, because you will not have heeded the voice of Adonai your God."
Darby Translation
As the nations which Jehovah is causing to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is destroying other nations for you. But if you stop listening to the Lord your God, you will be destroyed just like them!
George Lamsa Translation
As the nations which the LORD destroyed before you, so shall you perish if you are not obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
If you do not obey the Lord , then you will be destroyed just like those nations that he is going to destroy as you advance.
Christian Standard Bible®
Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
as the nations that Jehovah makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen as the Heythen whom ye LORDE destroyeth before youre face, so shall ye perishe also, because ye are not obedient vnto the voyce of the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As the nations whiche the Lorde destroyed before your face, euen so ye shall perishe, because ye woulde not be obedient vnto the voyce of ye Lord your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
As the nations that the LORD maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall yee perish; because ye would not be obedient vnto the voice of the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
As also the other nations which the Lord God destroys before your face, so shall ye perish, because ye hearkened not to the voice of the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
As the nations which the LORD maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
Like the nations the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
as hethen men perischiden, whiche the Lord dide awei in thin entryng, so and ye schulen perische, if ye schulen be vnobedient to the vois of youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
as the nations whom Jehovah is destroying from your presence, so ye perish; because ye hearken not to the voice of Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
World English Bible
As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so shall you perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
Just as the Lord has destroyed other nations in your path, you also will be destroyed if you refuse to obey the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
You will be destroyed like the nations the Lord destroys before you, because you would not listen to the voice of the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
like the nations which, Yahweh, is causing to perish from before you, so, shall ye perish, because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
As the nations, which the Lord destroyed at thy entrance, so shall you also perish, if you be disobedient to the voice of the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

10 Moses said to Israel: After you eat and are full, give praise to the Lord your God for the good land he gave you. 11 Make sure that you never forget the Lord or disobey his laws and teachings that I am giving you today. If you always obey them, 12 you will have plenty to eat, and you will build good houses to live in. 13 You will get more and more cattle, sheep, silver, gold, and other possessions. 14 But when all this happens, don't be proud! Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and that it was the Lord who set you free. 15 Remember how he led you in that huge and frightening desert where poisonous snakes and scorpions live. There was no water, but the Lord split open a rock, and water poured out so you could drink. 16 He also gave you manna, a kind of food your ancestors had never even heard about. The Lord was testing you to make you trust him, so that later on he could be good to you. 17 When you become successful, don't say, "I'm rich, and I've earned it all myself." 18 Instead, remember that the Lord your God gives you the strength to make a living. That's how he keeps the promise he made to your ancestors. 19But I'm warning you—if you forget the Lord your God and worship other gods, the Lord will destroy you, just as he destroyed the nations you fought.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

so shall ye perish: 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Daniel 9:11, Daniel 9:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:23 - shall destroy Deuteronomy 11:17 - ye perish Deuteronomy 30:18 - General 2 Kings 18:12 - they obeyed not Ezekiel 20:19 - walk

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
and Abel also gave an offering to the Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the Lord the best parts of it. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,
Genesis 7:2
Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.
Genesis 8:1
God did not forget about Noah and the animals with him in the boat. So God made a wind blow, and the water started going down.
Genesis 8:4
Then on the seventeenth day of the seventh month of the year, the boat came to rest somewhere in the Ararat mountains.
Genesis 8:8
Noah wanted to find out if the water had gone down, and he sent out a dove.
Genesis 8:15
God said to Noah,
Genesis 8:16
"You, your wife, your sons, and your daughters-in-law may now leave the boat.
Genesis 8:17
Let out the birds, animals, and reptiles, so they can mate and live all over the earth."
Genesis 13:4
where he had earlier camped and built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 13:18
Abram took down his tents and went to live near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar in honor of the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish,.... Be cut off by the sword, or cast out as they were, the same sins, particularly idolatry, being committed by them. This is to be understood of the seven nations of the land of Canaan, which the Lord would be gradually destroying when Israel came into the possession of their land; and they might righteously expect the same treatment, should they be guilty of the same sins:

because ye would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God; expressed in his law, especially in the two first precepts of it, which require the worship of one God, and forbid the worshipping of idols; or to the Word of the Lord, as the Targum of Jonathan, Christ, the essential Word, in whom the name of the Lord was, and whose voice Israel was to obey, Exodus 23:20.


 
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