Deuteronomy 4:38

to dispossess nations, greater and stronger than thou from before thee,—to bring thee in. to give unto thee their land for an inheritance: As at this day.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

In Context

37And because that he loved thy fathers, therefore chose he his seed after him,—and brought thee forth with his presence with his great might, out of Egypt;

39So then thou must consider to-day, and bring it back to thy heart, that, Yahweh, he is God in the heavens above and upon the earth beneath,—there is none other.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:27My terror, will I send before thee, and will confound all the people amongst whom thou shalt come, and will deliver up all thine enemies unto thee as they flee.

Deuteronomy 7:1When Yahweh thy God shall bring thee into the land which thou art going in to possess, and shall clear away many nations from before thee—the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites—seven nations greater in number and stronger than thou;

Deuteronomy 9:1Hear O Israel! thou art passing, to-day, over the Jordan, to go in to dispossess nations, greater and stronger than thou,—cities great and fortified into the heavens;

Joshua 3:10And Joshua said, Hereby, shall ye know, that a Living GOD is in your midst,—and that he will, certainly dispossess, from before you, the Canaanite and the Hittite, and the Hivite and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 20:11yea lo! they, are requiting us,—by coming to drive us out, from thy possession, which thou didst cause us to possess.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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