Deuteronomy 7:23
What does Deuteronomy 7:23 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 7:23 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But Jehovah thy God will deliver them up before thee, and will discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and destroyed them--a great destruction--till their destruction;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890But Jehovah thyGod will give them up before thee, and will confound them with great consternation, until they are destroyed.
Context
v.22And 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.
v.23This passage
v.24And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 9:3
Know therefore this day, that Jehovah thy God is he who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee: so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath spoken unto thee.
- Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
- Isaiah 13:6
Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
- Deuteronomy 8:20
As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.
- Deuteronomy 2:15
Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:9
who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
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