Deuteronomy 4:38

Deuteronomy 4:38 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
• English Standard Version (ESV)driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,
• New King James Version (NKJV)driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

Context of Deuteronomy 4:38

36From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words. 37Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. 39Today realize and carefully consider that the Lord is God in heaven above and on earth below – there is no other! 40Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Deuteronomy 4:38 word by word

לְהוֹרִ֗ישׁ גּוֹיִ֛ם גְּדֹלִ֧ים וַעֲצֻמִ֛ים מִמְּךָ֖ מִפָּנֶ֑יךָ לַהֲבִֽיאֲךָ֗ לָֽתֶת־לְךָ֧ אֶת־אַרְצָ֛ם נַחֲלָ֖ה כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• To drive outיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: takeH3423
• nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• from beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• thee greaterגָּדוֹלgâdôl gâdôl · great: largeH1419
• and mightierעָצוּם‛âtsûm ‛âtsûm · mightyH6099
• to bringבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): bringH935
• thee in, to giveנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• thee their landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• an inheritanceנַחֲלָהnachălâh · inheritanceH5159
• this dayיוֹםyôm · day: todayH3117

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 4:38

• Deuteronomy 7:1When 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 –
• Deuteronomy 9:1Listen, 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.
• Deuteronomy 11:23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
• Exodus 23:27“I will send my terror before you, and I will destroy all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
• Joshua 3:10Joshua continued, “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
• Psalms 44:2You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
• Deuteronomy 2:31The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”
• Deuteronomy 3:1Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
• Deuteronomy 8:18You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, even as he has to this day.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4:38

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29-40Verses 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. Deuteronomy 4:34 Temptations - Compare Deuteronomy 7:18-19; Deuteronomy 29:2-3; not, “i. e.” the tribulations and persecutions undergone by the Israelites, out the plagues miraculously inflicted on the Egyptians. Deuteronomy 4:37 He chose their seed after them - literally, “his seed after him.”…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-40Verses 24-40 Moses urged the greatness, glory, and goodness of God. Did we consider what a God he is with whom we have to do, we should surely make conscience of our duty to him, and not dare to sin against him. Shall we forsake a merciful God, who will never forsake us, if we are faithful unto him? Whither can we go? Let us be held to our duty by the bonds of love, and prevailed with by the mercies of God to cleave to him. Moses urged God's authority…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-40Moses gave a long speech to the Israelites because of their recent failures and what he thought would happen in Canaan.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-4015. Take ... good heed ... for ye saw no manner of similitude--The extreme proneness of the Israelites to idolatry, from their position in the midst of surrounding nations already abandoned to its seductions, accounts for their attention being repeatedly drawn to the fact that God did not appear on Sinai in any visible form; and an earnest caution, founded on that remarkable circumstance, is given to beware, not only of making representations of false…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 4:38

• Obedience
• Obligation

In the dictionaries

• Add
• Consider
• Consuming
• Diminish
• Furnace
• Hearken
• Deuteronomy
• Pentateuch

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings