Deuteronomy 7:23

Instead, Yahweh will enable you to defeat your enemies one people-group at a time. He will cause them to panic until they are destroyed.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

In Context

22He will expel those people-groups gradually. You should not try to expel all of them at one time, because if you did that, the number of wild animals would quickly increase, and you would not be able to get rid of them.

24He will enable you to defeat [IDM] their kings. After you kill them, their names will be forgotten {people will forget about them}. No people-group will be able to stop you; you will destroy all of them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:20If you do not obey Yahweh our God, he will certainly destroy you just like he will destroy the people-groups that you will fight against.”

Deuteronomy 31:5Yahweh will enable you to conquer those nations, but you must kill all of the people of those nations, which is what I have commanded you to do.

Isaiah 13:6You people of Babylon will scream because you will be terrified, because it will be the time that Yahweh has determined/chosen, the time for the all-powerful God to destroy your city.

Joel 1:15Terrible things are happening to us! It will soon be the time when Yahweh, who is the Almighty God, will really punish us, when he will cause us to experience more disasters.

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 →

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