Psalms 44:2

uprooting and crushing the nations, then planting and settling them. For it wasn’t their own sword that won them the land,

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In The King James Version

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

In Context

1O God, we have heard with our ears, all our ancestors have told us of the work that you wrought in their day, your wonders in days of old,

3it was not their own arm that brought them the victory. Yours was the hand and the arm, yours was the face that shone on them with favor.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:10Joshua said, “This is to let you see that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail evict before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.

Joshua 10:42All these kings and their country Joshua captured in a single campaign, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 44:2-9

Grateful Acknowledgment of Past Mercies; Consecration to God. 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. 2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. 4… Read the whole commentary →

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