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Deuteronomy 31:5

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The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you.

KJV

And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

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This verse in Deuteronomy 31

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And the Lord shall give them up before your face,.... To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall deliver them up:" that ye may do unto them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you; that is, utterly destroy them, make no covenant with them, enter into no alliances nor contract any marriages with them; but demolish their altars, cut down their groves, and break their images in pieces; of which last Aben Ezra interprets the words; but they are not to be restrained to that single instance; see Deu 7:1.

This site's exposition

The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you

on Deuteronomy 31:3-5

The sentence puts God over the Jordan first and Joshua second. The proof is Sihon and Og, defeated at Numbers 21:21-35. The argument runs from what this generation watched to what it has not yet seen.

This site's exposition

exactly as I have commanded you

John Gill reads the command as the charge of 7:1-5. The nations the LORD would deliver over were to be devoted to destruction, with no treaty and no marriage, and their altars broken down. Gill notes that the Targum of Jonathan has the Word of the LORD deliver them.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וּנְתָנָ֥םand he will deliver up them

    unetanamH5414 →2011 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לִפְנֵיכֶ֑ם<to> before you

    lifneikhemH6440 →2123 times

  • וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֣םand you will do

    vaasitemH6213 →2628 times

  • לָהֶ֔םto <the> them

    lahem

  • כְּכָל־according to all

    kekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַמִּצְוָ֔הthe commandment

    hamitzvahH4687 →181 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוִּ֖יתִיI have commanded

    tzivitiH6680 →494 times

  • אֶתְכֶֽם׃<obj.> you

    ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times

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

Related verses

7 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 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.6 worksDeuteronomy 20:16–17However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.3 worksExodus 23:32–33You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.3 worksDeuteronomy 7:18But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:2 worksDeuteronomy 7:23–25But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.2 worksExodus 34:12–16Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 33:52–56you 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.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 7:2

    and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

    it leads to

    • Judges 2:2

      and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

    • Exodus 23:32–33

      You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    • Deuteronomy 20:16–17

      However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

    • Joshua 11:11–12

      The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:18

    But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt:

    it leads to

    • Psalms 105:5

      Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

    • Deuteronomy 31:6

      Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”

    • Deuteronomy 1:29

      So I said to you: “Do not be terrified or afraid of them!

    • Psalms 77:11

      I will remember the works of the LORD; yes, I will remember Your wonders of old.

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 31 →

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

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