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.
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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.
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And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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And He shall deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have destroyed them.
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- Joshua 10:8 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you.”
- Joshua 23:9 “For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
- Joshua 1:5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
- Joshua 10:42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
- Deuteronomy 9:14 Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”
- Deuteronomy 11:25 No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you.
- Joshua 10:24-25 When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks. Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
- Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
- Romans 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- Exodus 17:14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”
- Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then Yahweh’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book will fall on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
- Joshua 12:1-6 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Psalms 9:5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
- Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Jeremiah 10:11 “You shall say this to them: ‘The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.’ ”
- Zephaniah 1:4 I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
- 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into…
Deu 7:24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
Ver. 24. Thou shalt destroy their name.] It shall be either buried in oblivion, or if mentioned, it shall be but as the stirring of a sepulchre, which thereby stinketh the more. Solomon reckoneth it for a mercy to a wicked man, when he is buried, to be forgotten in his city. {Ecc 8:10}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This promise is made upon condition of their performance…
This promise is made upon condition of their performance of their duty, which they neglecting, they justly lose the benefit of it, as we see, Jdg 2:1-3.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The graven images of their gods shall ye burn…
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire,.... Which is repeated from Deu 7:5, that it might be the more observed and strictly performed, and which unless done, they could not expect the utter destruction of their enemies, who were left in the land to try and prove them with respect to this very thing:
thou shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them: the raiment of gold or silver with which they were bedecked, or the plates of gold and silver with which they were covered, or any ornament about them, as chains and the like, that were of either of these metals; see Eze 16:16,
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nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; nor take it into their possession, or bring it into their houses, as in the next verse, lest they should be under a temptation to worship it, or keep it as a superstitious relic:
for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God; not only the idol itself, being put in the place of God, and so derogatory to his honour and glory, but the gold and silver on it, being devoted to a superstitious and idolatrous use; and even the taking of it, and appropriating it to a man's own use, was an abomination, and resented by the Lord as such.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain No man shall stand - This promise is made…
No man shall stand - This promise is made upon condition of their performance of their duty, which they neglecting, justly lose the benefit of it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 7:24. No man shall stand before thee —…
Deu 7:24. No man shall stand before thee — This promise was conditional; they were to be obedient and perform their duty, and then it would be fulfilled; but if they neglected to do this, they would justly lose the benefit of it.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. make their name to perish, etc.] Cp blot…
24. make their name to perish, etc.] Cp blot out, Deu_9:14, Deu_25:19, Deu_29:20.
stand before thee] Lit. keep himself standing to thy face, hold his post in face of thee: only here, Deu_9:2 Sg., Deu_11:25 Pl., in this sense.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) He shall deliver their kings into thine hand.—In…
(24) He shall deliver their kings into thine hand.—In the summary of Joshua’s conquest (Joshua 12) the kings are reckoned for the cities. Special mention is made of seven of them, who were hanged.
There shall no man be able to stand before thee.—A promise personally renewed to Joshua (Jos_1:5), and fulfilled to Israel under his command (Josh. 20:44).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The kings also of these nations should they utterly…
The kings also of these nations should they utterly destroy, so that their memory should perish from the earth.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 7:24 erase their names: An individual’s name represented that…
7:24 erase their names: An individual’s name represented that person’s existence as it would be carried into the future through generations of descendants. By destroying an entire nation, God cut off its line of descent and thus also its future. The Canaanites who suffered God’s war against them lost all their descendants and thus their existence and identity.
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