Deuteronomy 11:23

Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

In Context

22For if you take care to keep all the orders which I give you, and to do them; loving the Lord your God and walking in all his ways and being true to him:

24Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

Deuteronomy 4:38Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

Deuteronomy 7:22The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

Deuteronomy 9:5Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 11:19-26

18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates: 21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord… Read the whole commentary →

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