Deuteronomy - 11:23



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

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Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you.
then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you, and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
then hath Jehovah dispossessed all these nations from before you, and ye have possessed nations, greater and mightier than you;
Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.
the Lord will scatter all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, though they are greater and stronger than you.

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Historical Commentaries

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Then will the Lord drive out all those nations from before you,.... By little and little, even all the seven nations which then inhabited the land of Canaan; and this he would do to make room for them, that they might inherit the land; see Deuteronomy 7:1.
and ye shall possess greater nations, and mightier than yourselves; countries whose inhabitants were more in number, and greater in strength, than they; and therefore the conquest of them was not to be ascribed to themselves, but to the Lord; this is often observed; see Deuteronomy 7:1.

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