Deuteronomy 7:22

The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

World English Bible

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 shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

23But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:29I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

Joshua 15:63As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at 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 →

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