Deuteronomy 9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said unto you.
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Exodus 23:29I will not drive them out from before you in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against you.
Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 7:2And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy 7:22And the LORD your God will put out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.
Deuteronomy 9:6Understand therefore, that the LORD your God gives you not this good land to possess it for your righteousness; for you are a stubborn people.
Deuteronomy 20:4For the LORD your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 9:2-7
Victory Promised. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven, 2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak! 3 Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy… Read the whole commentary →