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Deuteronomy 12:29

in Deuteronomy 12

When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;

KJV

When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

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This verse in Deuteronomy 12

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations

on Deuteronomy 12:29-31

The danger named is curiosity, a man asking how these nations serve their gods and deciding to copy them. Verse 31 names the practice that makes their worship abominable, burning sons and daughters in the fire.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

When the Lord thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,.... The seven nations of the land of Canaan, Deu 7:1, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land; or to inherit them, and thou dost inherit them, by dwelling in their land.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They must not so much as enquire into the modes and forms of idolatrous worship. What good would it do to them to know those depths of Satan? It is best to be ignorant of that which there is danger of being infected by.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • כִּֽי־if

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • יַכְרִית֩he will cut off

    yakhritH3772 →288 times

  • יְהוָ֨הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָGod your

    ʾeloheikhaH430 →2601 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַגּוֹיִ֗םthe nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhere

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אַתָּ֥הyou

    ʾatahH859 →1094 times

  • בָא־[are] about to go

    va'-H935 →2568 times

  • שָׁ֛מָּהthere towards

    shamahH8033 →834 times

  • לָרֶ֥שֶׁתby dispossessing

    lareshetH3423 →231 times

  • אוֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • מִפָּנֶ֑יךָfrom before you

    mipaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֣and you will dispossess

    veyarashtaH3423 →231 times

  • אֹתָ֔ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖and you will dwell

    veyashavtaH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּאַרְצָֽם׃in land their

    beartzamH776 →2504 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 19:1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,7 worksJoshua 23:4See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.5 worksPsalms 78:55He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.2 worksExodus 23:23For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.2 worksDeuteronomy 9:3But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.2 worksExodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 9:3

    But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 4:24

      For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

    • Romans 8:31

      What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

    • Hebrews 12:29

      “For our God is a consuming fire.”

    • Deuteronomy 20:4

      For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.”

    • Deuteronomy 7:23–24

      But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

  • Through

    Exodus 23:23

    For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:20

      Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

  • Through

    Psalms 78:55

    He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:7

      Now therefore divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

    • Psalms 44:2

      With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 12 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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