Deuteronomy 7:22

And your God YHWH has cast out these nations from your presence little [by] little (you are not able to consume them quickly, lest the beast of the field multiplies against you),

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

In Context

21you are not terrified by their presence, for your God YHWH [is] in your midst, a God great and fearful.

23and your God YHWH has given them before you, and confused them [with] a great destruction until their being destroyed;

Read all of Deuteronomy 7

Cross References

Exodus 23:29I do not cast them out from before you in one year, lest the land be a desolation, and the beast of the field has multiplied against you;

Joshua 15:63As for the Jebusites, inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah have not been able to dispossess them, and the Jebusite dwells with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:13-26

12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: 13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 14 Thou shalt be blessed above all… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Deuteronomy 7:22