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Numbers 33:56
And then I will do to you what I had planned to do to them.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh speaks to Israel through Moses at the edge of the Promised Land, extending the warning in verse 55 about the consequences of failing to fully displace the Canaanite nations.
The words — דִּמִּ֛יתִי (di.Mi.ti) means "I intended," paired with אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֥ה ('e.'e.Seh), "I will do," establishing the coming judgment as a deliberate divine execution rather than a reactive punishment.
The thread — This conditional expulsion and divine reversal pattern runs in Deuteronomy 28:63, Leviticus 18:28, and Leviticus 20:23, where the failure to purge the land triggers the same purging of Israel.
Why it lands — The text commands complete removal of the inhabitants, warning that any compromise will cause Israel to suffer the very destruction they were ordered to execute.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 28:63 Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
- Leviticus 18:28 So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you.
- Leviticus 20:23 You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.
- Deuteronomy 29:28 The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
- Joshua 23:15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
- Ezekiel 33:24 “Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
- Luke 21:23 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,