Numbers 33:51

“Instruct the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you will have crossed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Canaan,

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In The King James Version

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

In Context

50where the Lord said to Moses:

52destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Break their monuments, and shatter their statues, and lay waste to every exalted thing,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:1“When the Lord your God will have led you to the land, which you will enter so as to possess it, and when he will have destroyed many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than you, and more robust than you,

Joshua 3:17Then the people advanced opposite Jericho. And the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord were standing, fully-dressed, upon dry soil in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over, through the channel that was dried up.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 33:51-56

The Canaanites Doomed. ( b. c. 1452.) 50 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given… Read the whole commentary →

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