Deuteronomy 1:30

Geneva Bible (1560)

The Lord your God, who goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did vnto you in Egypt before your eyes,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֤ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶם֙ הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם ה֖וּא יִלָּחֵ֣ם לָכֶ֑ם כְּ֠כֹל אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֧ה אִתְּכֶ֛ם בְּמִצְרַ֖יִם לְעֵינֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

YHWH ʾĕlōhêkem the-hōlēk to-pənêkem, he yillāḥēm for-you; like-all which 'āśāh with-you in-Miṣrayim to-'ênêkem.

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'your God'
• *hōlēk*: masculine singular participle, qal form of *hlk* with definite article - 'the one who walks'
• *pənêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'before you'
• *yillāḥēm*: 3rd person masculine singular imperfect, niphal form of *lḥm* - 'fight'
• *'āśāh*: 3rd person masculine singular perfect, qal form of *'śh* - 'do/make'
• *Miṣrayim*: proper noun - 'Egypt'
• *'ênêkem*: dual noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - 'your eyes'

Word Meanings

• *hōlēk*: who walks/goes/travels
• *pənêkem*: before you/in front of you
• *yillāḥēm*: will fight/do battle
• *'āśāh*: did/performed/accomplished
• *'ênêkem*: your eyes/in your sight

Referenced Verses

• Exod 14:14 : 14 The Lorde shall fight for you: therefore hold you your peace.
• Neh 4:20 : 20 In what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither vnto vs: our God shall fight for vs.
• Exod 14:25 : 25 For he tooke off their charet wheeles, and they draue them with much a doe: so that the Egyptians euery one sayd, I wil flee from the face of Israel: for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
• Deut 3:22 : 22 Ye shall not feare them: for the Lord your God, he shall fight for you.
• Josh 10:42 : 42 And all these Kings, and their land did Ioshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
• 1 Sam 17:45-46 : 45 Then sayd Dauid to the Philistim, Thou commest to me with a sword, and with a speare, & with a shield, but I come to thee in the Name of the Lord of hostes, the God of the hoste of Israel, whom thou hast rayled vpon. 46 This day shal the Lord close thee in mine hand, and I shall smite thee, and take thine head from thee, & I wil giue the carkeises of the hoste of the Philistims this daye vnto the foules of the heauen, & to the beasts of the earth, that all the world may know that Israel hath a God,
• 2 Chr 14:11-12 : 11 And Asa cryed vnto the Lorde his God, and saide, Lord, it is nothing with thee to helpe with many, or with no power: helpe vs, O Lorde our God: for we rest on thee, and in thy Name are we come against this multitude: O Lorde, thou art our God, let not man preuaile against thee. 12 So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa and before Iudah, and the Ethiopians fled.
• 2 Chr 32:8 : 8 With him is an arme of flesh, but with vs is the Lord our God for to helpe vs, & to fight our battels. Then the people were confirmed by the wordes of Hezekiah King of Iudah.
• Deut 20:1-4 : 1 When thou shalt go forth to warre against thine enemies, and shalt see horses & charets, & people moe then thou, be not afrayde of them: for the Lorde thy God is with thee, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. 2 And when ye are come nere vnto the battel, then the Priest shal come forth to speake vnto the people, 3 And shal say vnto them, Heare, O Israel: ye are come this day vnto battell against your enemies: let not your heartes faynt, neither feare, nor be amased, nor adread of them. 4 For ye Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, & to saue you
• Exod 15:1-9 : 1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song vnto the Lord, and sayd in this maner, I will sing vnto the Lorde: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and him that rode vpon him hath he ouerthrowen in the Sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and praise, and he is become my saluation. He is my God, and I will prepare him a tabernacle. he is my fathers God, and I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a man of warre, his Name is Iehouah. 4 Pharaohs charets and his host hath he cast into the Sea: his chosen captaines also were drowned in the red Sea. 5 The depths haue couered them, they sanke to the bottome as a stone. 6 Thy right hande, O Lorde, is glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lorde, hath brused the enemie. 7 And in thy great glorie thou hast ouerthrowen them that rose against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as the stubble. 8 And by the blast of thy nostrels the waters were gathered, the floods stoode still as an heape, the depthes congealed together in the heart of the Sea. 9 The enemie sayd, I wil pursue, I wil ouertake them, I will deuide the spoyle, my lust shall bee satisfied vpon them, I will drawe my sworde, mine hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou blewest with thy winde, the Sea couered them, they sanke as leade in the mightie waters. 11 Who is like vnto thee, O Lord, among the Gods! Who is like thee so glorious in holinesse, fearefull in prayses, doing wonders! 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hande, the earth swallowed them. 13 Thou wilt by thy mercie cary this people, which thou deliueredst: thou wilt bring them in thy strength vnto thine holy habitation. 14 The people shal heare and be afraide: sorow shal come vpon the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shalbe amased, & trembling shall come vpon the great men of Moab: all the inhabitantes of Canaan shall waxe faint hearted. 16 Feare and dread shall fall vpon them: because of the greatnesse of thine arme, they shalbe stil as a stone, till thy people passe, O Lord: til this people passe, which thou hast purchased. 17 Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountaine of thine inheritance, which is the place that thou hast prepared, O Lord, for to dwell in, euen the sanctuarie, O Lord, which thine hands shall establish. 18 The Lord shall reigne for euer and euer. 19 For Pharaohs horses went with his charets and horsemen into the Sea, and the Lorde brought the waters of the Sea vpon them: but the children of Israel went on drie land in the middes of the Sea. 20 And Miriam the prophetesse, sister of Aaron tooke a timbrell in her hande, and all the women came out after her with timbrels and daunces. 21 And Miriam answered the men, Sing yee vnto the Lord: for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath hee ouerthrowen in the Sea. 22 Then Moses brought Israel from the redde Sea, and they went out into the wildernesse of Shur: and they went three dayes in the wildernesse, and found no waters. 23 And whe they came to Marah, they could not drinke of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of the place was called Marah. 24 Then the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drinke? 25 And he cried vnto the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were sweete: there he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he proued them, 26 And sayd, if thou wilt diligently hearken, O Israel, vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that, which is right in his sight, and wilt giue eare vnto his commaundementes, and keepe all his ordinances, then will I put none of these diseases vpon thee, which I brought vpon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. 27 And they came to Elim, where were twelue fountaines of water, and seuentie palme trees, and they camped thereby the waters.
• Ps 46:11 : 11 The Lord of hostes is with vs: the God of Iaakob is our refuge. Selah.
• Ps 78:11-13 : 11 And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them. 12 Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan. 13 He deuided the Sea, & led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
• Ps 78:43-51 : 43 Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan, 44 And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke. 45 Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper. 47 He destroied their vines with haile, & their wilde figge trees with the hailestone. 48 He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes. 49 Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels. 50 He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence, 51 And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
• Ps 105:27-36 : 27 They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish. 30 Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers. 31 He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters. 32 He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes. 34 He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable, 35 And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground. 36 He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength.
• Isa 8:9-9 : 9 Gather together on heapes, O ye people, and ye shalbe broken in pieces, and hearken all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces: gird your selues, and you shalbe broken in pieces. 10 Take counsell together, yet it shall be brought to nought: pronounce a decree, yet shall it not stand: for God is with vs.
• Rom 8:31 : 31 What shall we then say to these thinges? If God be on our side, who can be against vs?
• Rom 8:37 : 37 Neuerthelesse, in all these thinges we are more then coquerours through him that loued vs.
• Exod 7:1-9 : 1 Then the Lord saide to Moses, Behold, I haue made thee Pharaohs God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy Prophet. 2 Thou shalt speake all that I commaunded thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speake vnto Pharaoh, that he suffer the children of Israel to go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaohs heart, and multiplie my miracles and my wonders in the lande of Egypt. 4 And Pharaoh shall not hearken vnto you, that I may lay mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out myne armies, euen my people, the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by great iudgements. 5 Then the Egyptians shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I stretch foorth mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, euen so did they. 7 (Nowe Moses was foure score yeere olde, and Aaron foure score and three, when they spake vnto Pharaoh) 8 And the Lorde had spoken vnto Moses and Aaron, saying, 9 If Pharaoh speake vnto you, saying, Shewe a miracle for you, then thou shalt say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shalbe turned into a serpent. 10 Then went Moses and Aaron vnto Pharaoh, and did euen as the Lord had commaunded: and Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his seruants, & it was turned into a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh called also for the wise men and sorcerers: and those charmers also of Egypt did in like maner with their enchantmens, 12 For they cast downe euery man his rod, & they were turned into serpents: but Aarons rodde deuoured their rods. 13 So Pharaohs heart was hardened, and hee hearkened not to them, as the Lorde had saide. 14 The Lorde then saide vnto Moses, Pharaohs heart is obstinate, hee refuseth to let the people goe. 15 Goe vnto Pharaoh in the morning, (loe, he will come forth vnto the water) and thou shalt stand and meete him by the riuers brinke, and the rod, which was turned into a serpent, shalt thou take in thine hand. 16 And thou shalt say vnto him, The Lorde God of the Ebrewes hath sent me vnto thee, saying, Let my people goe, that they may serue mee in the wildernesse: and beholde, hitherto thou wouldest not heare. 17 Thus saith the Lorde, In this shalt thou know that I am the Lord: behold, I wil smite with the rodde that is in mine hand vpon the water that is in the riuer, and it shalbe turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is in the riuer shall dye, and the riuer shall stinke, and it shall grieue the Egyptians to drinke of the water of the riuer. 19 The Lord then spake to Moses, Say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand ouer the waters of Egypt, ouer their streames, ouer their riuers, & ouer their pondes,, and ouer all pooles of their waters, and they shalbe blood, and there shalbe blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and of stone. 20 So Moses and Aaron did euen as the Lord commaunded: and hee lift vp the rodde, and smote the water that was in the riuer in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his seruants: and all the water that was in the riuer, was turned into blood. 21 And the fish that was in the ryuer dyed, & the riuer stanke: so that the Egyptians could not drinke of the water of the riuer: and there was blood throughout all the lande of Egypt. 22 And the enchanters of Egypt did likewise with their sorceries: and the heart of Phraoh was hardened: so that he did not hearken vnto them, as the Lord had sayde. 23 Then Pharaoh returned, and went againe into his house, neither did this yet enter into his heart. 24 All the Egyptians then digged rounde about the riuer for waters to drinke: for they could not drinke of the water of the riuer. 25 And this continued fully seuen dayes after the Lord had smitten the riuer.