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Deuteronomy 4:38

Deuteronomy 4:38
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art,.... The seven nations of the land of Canaan, which were more in number and mightier in power and strength than they, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Deuteronomy 4:29-40

Unwilling, as it might seem, to close his discourse with words of terror, Moses makes a last appeal to them in these verses in a different strain. Deu 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deu 7:18-19; Deu…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Deuteronomy 4:1-40

This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

to drive out nations from before thee Heb. to dispossess … from before thee; Deu 9:4-5; Deu 11:23; Deu 18:12 (and the probably editorial Exo 34:24); cp. Deu 7:17; Deu 9:3; Deu 9:5. For another form of…