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 the heavens He made you hear His voice to instruct you, and on earth He caused you to see His great fire—you heard His words from the midst of the fire. 37Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them. Then He brought you out from Egypt with His presence, by His great power— to drive out from 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. 39“So you will know today and take to heart that Adonai, He is God, in the heavens above and on the earth below—there is no other. 40You must keep His statutes and His mitzvot, which I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land that Adonai your God is giving you for all time.”

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 7:1“When Adonai your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out many nations before you—the Hittite and the Girgashite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you—
• Deuteronomy 9:1“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself—cities great and fortified up to the heavens.
• Deuteronomy 11:23then Adonai will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
• Exodus 23:27“I will send My terror before you and throw all the people to whom you will come into panic, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
• Joshua 3:10Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is among you, and that He will certainly drive out from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite and the Jebusite.
• Psalms 44:2We have heard with our ears, O God —our fathers have told us— of a work You did in their days, in days of old.
• Deuteronomy 2:31“Adonai said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you—begin to take possession in order to take hold of his land.’
• Deuteronomy 3:1“Next we turned and went up the way to the Bashan. King Og of the Bashan came out against us—he and all his people—for battle at Edrei.
• Deuteronomy 8:18Rather you are to remember Adonai your God, for it is He who gives you power to make wealth, in order to establish His covenant that He swore to your fathers—as it is 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

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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