Deuteronomy 19:1

When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Moses addresses the Israelite assembly on the plains of Moab, outlining civil regulations to be implemented upon entering Canaan.

The words — The Hebrew verb יַכְרִית (yakh.Rit) literally means "he will cut off," denoting the complete removal of the occupying nations.

The thread — The structural sequence of God removing nations and transferring their territory to Israel recurs in Deuteronomy 12:29 and Deuteronomy 7:1.

Why it lands — The text establishes a strict chronological condition: Israel's settlement in prepared cities and houses follows only after God's decisive action of displacing the former inhabitants.

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The Hebrew words

כִּֽי־ki-if יַכְרִ֞יתyakh.Rithe will cut off יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙'e.lo.Hei./khaGod/ your אֶת־'et-<obj.>הַגּוֹיִ֔םha./go.Yimthe/ nations אֲשֶׁר֙'a.Sherwhich יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahweh אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ'e.lo.Hei./khaGod/ your נֹתֵ֥ןno.Ten[is] about to giveלְךָ֖le./Khato <the>/ youאֶת־'et-<obj.>אַרְצָ֑ם'ar.Tza/mland/ their וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֕םvi./rish.Ta/mand/ you will dispossess/ them וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֥ve./ya.shav.Taand/ you will dwell בְעָרֵיהֶ֖םve./'a.rei./Hemin/ cities/ their וּבְבָתֵּיהֶֽם׃u./ve./va.tei./Hemand/ in/ houses/ their

King James Version

When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 12:29 When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
Deuteronomy 6:10 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
Deuteronomy 7:1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
Deuteronomy 17:14 When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
Deuteronomy 12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.