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Deuteronomy 7:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed. "

Deuteronomy 7:23

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21 You shall not be scared of them; for the LORD your God is among you, a great and awesome God.

22 The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

23 But the LORD your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they are destroyed.

24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under the sky. No one will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 9:3

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"Know therefore today that the LORD your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has spoken to you."

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Deuteronomy 31:5

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"The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you."

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Joshua 23:5

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"The LORD your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as the LORD your God spoke to you."

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Joshua 23:13

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"know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you."

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Lamentations 3:66

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"You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD."

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Exodus 23:27

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"I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you."

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Deuteronomy 7:1

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—seven nations greater and mightier than you;"

Deuteronomy 7:2

"and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them."

Deuteronomy 7:3

"You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son."

Deuteronomy 7:4

"For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the LORD’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly."

Deuteronomy 7:5

"But you shall deal with them like this: you shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire."

Deuteronomy 7:6

"For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth."

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