Deuteronomy 6:19

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Deuteronomy 6:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

18 Do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, so that it may be well with you and that you may enter and possess the good land that the LORD your God swore to give your fathers,

19 driving out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has said.

20 In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

21 then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 23:28

I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.

Exodus 23:30

Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Numbers 33:53

You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.

Judges 2:1

Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Judges 2:2

and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

Judges 2:3

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

Judges 3:1

These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,

Judges 3:2

if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly:

Judges 3:3

the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

Judges 3:4

These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.