Deuteronomy 31:3

The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָ֨ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
God	אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ 'e.lo.Hei.kha	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
over	עֹבֵ֣ר 'o.Ver	H5674	to cross over · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
before	לְפָנֶ֗יךָ le.fa.Nei.kha	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
destroy	יַשְׁמִ֞יד yash.Mid	H8045	to desolate · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
nations	הַגּוֹיִ֥ם ha.go.Yim	H1471	a foreign nation · definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
before	מִלְּפָנֶ֖יךָ mi.le.fa.Nei.kha	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
possess	וִֽירִשְׁתָּ֑ם vi.rish.Tam	H3423	to occupy (by driving out previous tenants · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
Joshua	יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ ye.ho.Shu.a'	H3091	Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua) · proper noun, a man's name
over	עֹבֵ֣ר 'o.Ver	H5674	to cross over · verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
before	לְפָנֶ֔יךָ le.fa.Nei.kha	H6440	the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
said	דִּבֶּ֥ר di.Ber	H1696	perhaps properly · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 9:3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he s…
Deuteronomy 31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the…
Deuteronomy 3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the la…
Joshua 4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Genesis 48:21 And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Numbers 27:18-21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
Deuteronomy 31:7-8 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this peop…
Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the con…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Loth to part (we say) bids oft farewell. Moses does so to the children of Israel: not because he was loth to go to God, but because he was loth to leave them, fearing that when he had left them they would leave God. He had finished what he had to say to them by way of counsel and exhortation: here he calls them together to give them a word of encouragement, especially with reference to the wars of Canaan, in which they were now to engage. It was a discouragement to them that Moses was to be removed at a time when he could so ill be spared: though Joshua was continued to fight for them in the valley, they would want Moses to intercede for them on the hill, as he did, Exo 17:10. But there is n…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 31:2

also the Lord hath said--should be "for the Lord hath said" thou shalt not go over this Jordan. While taking a solemn leave of the people, Moses exhorted them not to be intimidated by the menacing opposition of enemies; to take encouragement from the continued presence of their covenanted God; and to rest assured that the same divine power, which had enabled them to discomfit their first assailants on the east of Jordan, would aid them not less effectually in the adventurous enterprise which they were about to undertake, and by which they would obtain possession of "the land which He had sworn unto their fathers to give them."

John Gill on Deuteronomy 31:3

The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee,.... This he said to encourage the people of Israel; that though he should die, and not go over with them, their ever living and true God, the great Jehovah, the Lord of hosts, he would go before them, and fight their battles for them; so that they had nothing to fear from their enemies: and he will destroy those nations from before thee; the seven nations which then inhabited the land: and thou shalt possess them; their countries, cities, and houses, fields, and vineyards: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee; as their general to fight for them, subdue their enemies, and put them into the possession of the land, and divide it to them: as…

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Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy — In all the Hebrew manuscripts the Pentateuch (q.v.) forms one roll or volume divided into larger and smaller sections called parshioth_ and _sedarim. It is not easy to say when it was divided into…
Geber — A valiant man, (1 Kings 4:19), one of Solomon’s purveyors, having jurisdiction over a part of Gilead, comprising all the kingdom of Sihon and part of the kingdom of Og (Deut. 2; 31).
Canaanites · To be — To be
Joshua · of Moses’ office — of Moses’ office

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 31:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 31:2

John Gill on Deuteronomy 31:3

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 31:3

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 31:2

John Gill on Deuteronomy 31:3

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 31:1-13

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 31:3

Rashi on Deuteronomy 31:2