Psalms 44:2

You drove out the nations with your hand, 1 but you planted our people; 1 you afflicted the peoples, 1 but you spread our people out in the land. 1

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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

1We have heard with our ears, God, 1 our fathers have told us 1 what work you did in their days, 1 in the days of old. 1

3For they did not obtain the land for their possession by their own sword, 1 neither did their own arm save them; 1 but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, 1 because you were favorable to them. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:17You will bring them and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, 1 the place, Yahweh, that you have made to live in, 1 the sanctuary, our Lord, that your hands have built. 1

Exodus 23:28I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

Numbers 13:32So they spread around a discouraging report to the people of Israel about the land that they had examined. They said, “The land that we looked at is a land that eats up its inhabitants. All the people whom we saw there are people of great height.

Deuteronomy 7:1When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, he will drive out many nations before you—the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—seven nations greater and mightier than you.

Joshua 3:10By this you will know that the living God is among you and will drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

Joshua 10:42Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, 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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