“Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 11:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than you. American Standard Version (1901) then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Common English Bible then the LORD will clear out all these nations before you. You will inherit what belonged to nations that are larger and stronger than you are. Catholic Public Domain Version the Lord will scatter all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, though they are greater and stronger than you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you. |
“Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, giving you their land for a possession, as it is still today.
“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations, and as for you, no one has been able to withstand you to this day.