Deuteronomy 11:23

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then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:38 : 38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 Theological Justification of the Conquest Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Deut 7:1-2 : 1 The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you– 2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
  • Deut 7:22-23 : 22 He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you. 23 The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
  • Exod 23:27-30 : 27 “I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you. 29 I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
  • Exod 34:11 : 11 “Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:38
    84%

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Josh 23:3-5
    3 verses
    84%

    3You saw everything the LORD your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the LORD your God fights for you.

    4See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.

    5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.

  • Deut 12:29
    82%

    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • Deut 9:1
    81%

    1Theological Justification of the Conquest Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.

  • Deut 7:1
    81%

    1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–

  • Judg 11:23-24
    2 verses
    81%

    23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?

    24You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.

  • Deut 11:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    24Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River(that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

    25Nobody will be able to resist you; the LORD your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.

  • Deut 11:31
    80%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

  • Josh 23:9
    80%

    9“The LORD drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.

  • Deut 7:17
    80%

    17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”

  • Num 33:52-53
    2 verses
    79%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

    53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Deut 31:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.

    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

    5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • Exod 23:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

    31I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

  • Deut 9:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.

    4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 11:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8The Abundance of the Land of Promise Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,

    9and that you may enjoy long life in the land the LORD promised to give to your ancestors and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Deut 7:22-23
    2 verses
    78%

    22He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.

  • Deut 19:1
    77%

    1Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Neh 9:23-24
    2 verses
    77%

    23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

    24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.

  • Deut 6:19
    76%

    19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

  • Deut 1:21
    76%

    21Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”

  • Josh 1:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.

    4Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east(including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

  • Josh 23:13
    75%

    13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.

  • Exod 34:11
    75%

    11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 1:8
    75%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Deut 30:5
    75%

    5Then he will bring you to the land your ancestors possessed and you also will possess it; he will do better for you and multiply you more than he did your ancestors.

  • Deut 11:22
    74%

    22For if you carefully observe all of these commandments I am giving you and love the LORD your God, live according to his standards, and remain loyal to him,

  • Num 32:22
    74%

    22and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD’s sight.

  • Josh 24:13
    74%

    13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

  • Exod 34:24
    74%

    24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

  • Exod 23:23
    74%

    23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.

  • Lev 20:23
    74%

    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Josh 1:6
    74%

    6Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.

  • Deut 1:39
    73%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • Josh 1:15
    73%

    15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

  • Deut 26:19
    73%

    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.