Deuteronomy 9:4

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And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.

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  • Deut 8:17 : 17 Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Deut 18:9-9 : 9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations. 10 Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, 11 Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions. 12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.
  • Ezek 36:22 : 22 For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.
  • Ezek 36:32 : 32 Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
  • Rom 11:20 : 20 Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;
  • 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.
  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us, 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another. 4 But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
  • Lev 18:24-30 : 24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean: 25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it. 26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you: 27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;) 28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you. 29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people. 30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: 8 But because of his love for you, and in order to keep his oath to your fathers, the Lord took you out with the strength of his hand, making you free from the prison-house and from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

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  • Deut 9:5-6
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    5 Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    6 Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

  • Josh 23:5
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    5 The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Deut 4:38
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    38 Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

  • Deut 7:17
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    17 If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

  • Deut 9:3
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    3 Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

  • Deut 11:23
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    23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

  • Deut 6:18-19
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    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

  • Deut 7:1-2
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    1 When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;

    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Deut 31:3-4
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    3 The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.

    4 The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.

  • Judg 11:23-24
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    23 So now the Lord, the God of Israel, has taken away their land from the Amorites and given it to his people Israel; are you then to have it?

    24 Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.

  • Neh 9:24
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    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

  • Num 33:52-53
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    52 See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

    53 And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

  • Deut 11:31
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    31 For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • Josh 23:9
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    9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Deut 1:8
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    8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

  • Ps 44:2
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    2 Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

  • Deut 1:21
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    21 See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.

  • Josh 23:13
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    13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 7:22-23
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    22 The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

    23 But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

  • Exod 23:30
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    30 Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

  • Deut 9:1
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    1 Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

  • Deut 9:28
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    28 Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.

  • Ezra 9:11
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    11 Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

  • Deut 29:28
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    28 Rooting them out of their land, in the heat of his wrath and passion, and driving them out into another land, as at this day.

  • Deut 12:9
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    9 For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Ezek 35:10
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    10 Because you have said, The two nations and the two countries are to be mine, and we will take them for our heritage; though the Lord was there:

  • Deut 15:4
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    4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

  • Num 32:22
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    22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Exod 34:11
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    11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

  • Ps 78:55
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    55 Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11 See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

  • Judg 6:9
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    9 And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

  • Lev 18:28
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    28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Deut 4:21
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    21 And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:

  • Deut 2:31
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    31 And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into your hands: go forward now to take his land and make it yours.

  • Deut 28:63
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    63 And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

  • Deut 19:14
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    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Josh 24:18
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    18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.