Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 6:19
driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses Israel on the plains of Moab, concluding his charge before they cross into the territory God swore to their ancestors.
The words — The clause centers on לַ/הֲדֹ֥ף (la/ha.Dof), literally “to drive out,” and כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka/'a.Sher), literally “just as,” marking the expulsion as a direct execution of divine speech.
The thread — The mandate to remove the land’s inhabitants recurs in Exodus 23:28, Numbers 33:52, and Judges 2:1.
Why it lands — The verse states that possessing the land requires executing God’s command to displace its current inhabitants. It asks readers to accept territorial inheritance as conditional upon strict compliance with divine judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
Cross-references
- Exodus 23:28 I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
- Numbers 33:52 you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Judges 2:1 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
- Judges 3:1 These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,