Deuteronomy 11:23

What does Deuteronomy 11:23 mean?

A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 11:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

ASV

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you, and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Context

v.22For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

v.23This passage

v.24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 34:11

    Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Deuteronomy 9:1

    Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

  • Deuteronomy 9:5

    Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • Deuteronomy 7:22

    And Jehovah thy God will cast 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.

  • Exodus 23:27

    I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

  • Deuteronomy 4:38

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

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