Deuteronomy 11:23
in Deuteronomy 11then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
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ASV
then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
KJV
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 11
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
if you carefully keep all these commandments
on Deuteronomy 11:22-23
Five verbs are stacked in one verse, to keep, to do, to love, to walk and to cleave. The last of them is the word Genesis 2:24 uses of a man joined to his wife.
This site's exposition
the LORD will drive out all
The LORD will drive out these nations on the condition of verse 22, if Israel keeps these commandments. Judges 2:20 to 23 records the LORD leaving nations in the land after Joshua died, when Israel had broken His covenant. Those nations were left to test Israel.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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 Deu 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 Deu 7:1.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהוֹרִ֧ישׁ | vehorish | and he will dispossess | H3423 → | 231 times |
| יְהוָ֛ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַגּוֹיִ֥ם | hagoyim | the nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| הָאֵ֖לֶּה | haeleh | <the> these | H428 → | 746 times |
| מִלִּפְנֵיכֶ֑ם | milifneikhem | from to before you | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם | virishtem | and you will dispossess | H3423 → | 231 times |
| גּוֹיִ֔ם | goyim | nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| גְּדֹלִ֥ים | gedolim | great | H1419 → | 526 times |
| וַעֲצֻמִ֖ים | vaatzumim | and mighty | H6099 → | 31 times |
| מִכֶּֽם׃ | mikem | more than you |
וְהוֹרִ֧ישׁand he will dispossess
vehorishH3423 →231 times
יְהוָ֛הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַגּוֹיִ֥םthe nations
hagoyimH1471 →561 times
הָאֵ֖לֶּה<the> these
haelehH428 →746 times
מִלִּפְנֵיכֶ֑םfrom to before you
milifneikhemH6440 →2123 times
וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣םand you will dispossess
virishtemH3423 →231 times
גּוֹיִ֔םnations
goyimH1471 →561 times
גְּדֹלִ֥יםgreat
gedolimH1419 →526 times
וַעֲצֻמִ֖יםand mighty
vaatzumimH6099 →31 times
מִכֶּֽם׃more than you
mikem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 9:5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving…
it leads to
- Titus 3:5
He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,
- Titus 3:5
Through
Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 11:31
For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,
- Deuteronomy 4:38
to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
- Deuteronomy 11:31
Through
Exodus 34:11Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
it leads to
- Exodus 33:2
And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
- Exodus 33:2
Through
Deuteronomy 4:38to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
it leads to
- 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…
- Deuteronomy 7:1
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.
