To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken.
to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
to drive away all thine enemies from thy presence, as Jehovah hath spoken.
thrusting out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Deuteronomy — Moses' farewell sermons on the plains of Moab. The covenant renewed for the generation about to cross — with the Shema at its heart and Moses' song on its lips.
Voices3
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in their country: as the Lord hath spoken; see Gen 15:18.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Sinners, especially presumptuous sinners, are said to tempt God, that is, to make a trial of God, whether he be, so wise as to see their sins, so just and true and powerful as to take vengeance on them, concerning which they are very apt to doubt because of the present impunity and prosperity of many such persons.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical
Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. To induce them to this, he here shows them, 1. That this would be very acceptable to God: it is right and good in the sight of the Lord; and that is right and good indeed that is, so in God's sight.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches5
I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
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.
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,
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
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—
