To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
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Gill's Exposition
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in…
The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly…
Here, I. Moses charges them to keep God's commandments themselves: You shall diligently keep God's commandments, Deu 6:17-19. Note, It requires a great deal of care and pains to keep up religion in…
Cambridge Bible
to thrust out, etc.] The Heb. is used of this event only here and Deu 9:4 (Sg.); also in the deuteronomic Jos 23:5.
as Jehovah hath spoken Exo 23:27 ff.