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But when you have driven them out and settled in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/12.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God goes ahead of you and destroys the nations and you drive them out and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/12.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/12.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/12.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/12.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God cuts off from you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/12.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/12.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“When Yahweh your God cuts off before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and inhabit their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/12.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God cuts off <i>and</i> destroys before you the nations which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and settle in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“When the LORD your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God annihilates the nations before you, which you are entering to take possession of, and you drive them out and live in their land, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/12.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/12.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Israel, as you go into the land and attack the nations that are there, the LORD will get rid of them, and you can have their land. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/12.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to possess them, and thou possessest them, and dwellest in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/12.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />The LORD your God will destroy the nations where you're going and force them out of your way. You will take possession of their land and live there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/12.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"The LORD your God will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/12.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"When the LORD your God eliminates the nations that you are about to dispossess so you can live in their land, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/12.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/12.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/12.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/12.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/12.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />When your God YHWH cuts off the nations—to where you are going in to possess them—from your presence, and you have possessed them, and have dwelt in their land—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/12.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'When Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations -- whither thou art going in to possess them -- from thy presence, and thou hast possessed them, and hast dwelt in their land -- <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/12.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations where thou goest in there to possess them, from before thee, and thou shalt inherit them, and thou shalt dwell in their land.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/12.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />When the Lord thy God shall have destroyed before thy face the nations, which then shalt go in to possess, and when thou shalt possess them, and dwell in their land: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/12.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />When the Lord your God will have abolished before your face the nations, which you shall enter so as to possess them, and when you will possess them and live in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/12.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD, your God, cuts down from before you the nations you are going in to dispossess, and you have dispossessed them and are settled in their land,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/12.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When the LORD your God has cut off before you the nations whom you are about to enter to dispossess them, when you have dispossessed them and live in their land,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/12.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />When the LORD your God shall destroy the nations against whom you are going, and shall cut them off from before you, and you shall possess them and dwell in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/12.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And when LORD JEHOVAH your God will destroy the nations to which you go, and he will destroy them from before you and you will possess them and you will dwell in their land;<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/12.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/12.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And if the Lord thy God shall utterly destroy the nations, to whom thou goest in thither to inherit their land, from before thee, and thou shalt inherit it, and dwell in their land;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=3842" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/12.htm">A Warning Against Idolatry</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">29</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">When</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3772.htm" title="3772: yaḵ·rîṯ (V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms) -- To cut off, cut down. A primitive root; to cut; by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant.">cuts off</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: mip·pā·ne·ḵā (Prep-m:: N-cpc:: 2ms) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before you</a> <a href="/hebrew/1471.htm" title="1471: hag·gō·w·yim (Art:: N-mp) -- Rarely goy; apparently from the same root as gevah; a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts.">the nations</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/859.htm" title="859: ’at·tāh (Pro-2ms) -- You (masc. sing.). ">you</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: ḇā- (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">are entering</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām·māh (Adv:: 3fs) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3423.htm" title="3423: lā·re·šeṯ (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- Or yaresh; a primitive root; to occupy; by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.">to dispossess,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·w·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3423.htm" title="3423: wə·yā·raš·tā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- Or yaresh; a primitive root; to occupy; by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin.">and you drive them out</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯām (DirObjM:: 3mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3427.htm" title="3427: wə·yā·šaḇ·tā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-2ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.">and live</a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: bə·’ar·ṣām (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3mp) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">in their land,</a> </span><span class="reftext">30</span>be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/23-23.htm">Exodus 23:23-24</a></span><br />For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them. / You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/34-11.htm">Exodus 34:11-16</a></span><br />Observe what I command you this day. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst. / Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/18-24.htm">Leviticus 18:24-30</a></span><br />Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. / Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. / But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/numbers/33-51.htm">Numbers 33:51-56</a></span><br />“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, / 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. / You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/7-1.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-5</a></span><br />When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— / and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. / Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/18-9.htm">Deuteronomy 18:9-14</a></span><br />When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. / Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery, / casts spells, consults a medium or spiritist, or inquires of the dead. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm">Joshua 23:12-13</a></span><br />For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/2-1.htm">Judges 2:1-3</a></span><br />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, / 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? / 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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-1.htm">1 Kings 11:1-2</a></span><br />King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-18</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-34.htm">Psalm 106:34-39</a></span><br />They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, / but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. / They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/10-2.htm">Jeremiah 10:2-3</a></span><br />This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them. / For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/11-12.htm">Ezekiel 11:12</a></span><br />Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-17.htm">Matthew 5:17-19</a></span><br />Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. / For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. / So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-3.htm">Matthew 15:3-9</a></span><br />Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? / For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ / But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’ ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go to possess them, and you succeed them, and dwell in their land;</p><p class="hdg">cut off</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/9-3.htm">Deuteronomy 9:3</a></b></br> Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God <i>is</i> he which goeth over before thee; <i>as</i> a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Deuteronomy 19:1</a></b></br> When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/23-23.htm">Exodus 23:23</a></b></br> For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, <i>and</i> the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.</p><p class="hdg">succeedest [heb] inherited.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/12-3.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/leviticus/21-5.htm">Cuts</a> <a href="/exodus/4-25.htm">Cutteth</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Dispossess</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-4.htm">Driven</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-11.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/revelation/2-13.htm">Dwellest</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-10.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-16.htm">Invade</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-2.htm">Possess</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-31.htm">Possessed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-31.htm">Possession</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-7.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/2-23.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Succeedest</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/11-29.htm">Whither</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/14-1.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-1.htm">Cuts</a> <a href="/judges/19-29.htm">Cutteth</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/18-12.htm">Dispossess</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Driven</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/13-12.htm">Dwell</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Dwellest</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Dwelt</a> <a href="/1_samuel/7-13.htm">Invade</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-4.htm">Possess</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/16-20.htm">Possessed</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/14-2.htm">Possession</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/12-30.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-14.htm">Settled</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/19-1.htm">Succeedest</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/21-14.htm">Whither</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 12</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-1.htm">Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-4.htm">The place of God's service to be kept</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-15.htm">Blood is forbidden</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-17.htm">Holy things must be eaten in the holy place</a></span><br><span class="reftext">19. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-19.htm">The Levite is not to be forsaken</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-20.htm">Blood is again forbidden</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-26.htm">and holy things must be eaten in the holy place</a></span><br><span class="reftext">29. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Idolatry is not to be enquired after</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The "cutting off" of nations refers to God's judgment against the Canaanite peoples due to their idolatry and moral corruption, as seen in <a href="/genesis/15-16.htm">Genesis 15:16</a>. This divine action fulfills the promise made to Abraham regarding the land of Canaan (<a href="/genesis/12-7.htm">Genesis 12:7</a>). It also underscores the concept of divine justice and the holiness required by God, as He cannot tolerate sin indefinitely.<p><b>you are entering to dispossess</b><br>The Israelites are entering the land as part of God's covenant promise. The term "dispossess" indicates a transfer of ownership ordained by God. This action is not merely a military conquest but a fulfillment of divine promise. The dispossession of the Canaanites is a physical manifestation of God's plan for His chosen people, as seen in <a href="/exodus/23-23.htm">Exodus 23:23-30</a>, where God promises to send His angel before them to drive out the inhabitants.<p><b>and you drive them out</b><br>This phrase highlights the human responsibility in God's plan. While God promises to cut off the nations, the Israelites are required to act in obedience to His command. This partnership between divine sovereignty and human responsibility is a recurring theme in Scripture. The driving out of the nations is also a call to purity, as the Israelites are to remove all influences that could lead them away from worshiping the one true God (<a href="/deuteronomy/7.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-5</a>).<p><b>and live in their land</b><br>The land is a central theme in the covenant relationship between God and Israel. Living in the land signifies the fulfillment of God's promises and the establishment of Israel as a nation under God's rule. This phrase also implies a call to stewardship and faithfulness, as the Israelites are to live according to God's laws and maintain the land's sanctity. The land is not just a physical territory but a place where God's people can worship Him freely and live out His commandments, as seen in <a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm">Leviticus 25:23</a>, where God reminds them that the land is His and they are merely sojourners.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who is actively involved in the history and destiny of His people.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_nations.htm">The Nations</a></b><br>The various peoples inhabiting the Promised Land, whom God commands Israel to dispossess due to their idolatrous practices.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, led by Moses, who are on the brink of entering the Promised Land.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_promised_land.htm">The Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, which God promised to Abraham and his descendants as an inheritance.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/d/dispossession.htm">Dispossession</a></b><br>The act of driving out the current inhabitants of the land, as commanded by God, to establish a holy nation.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty_and_judgment.htm">God's Sovereignty and Judgment</a></b><br>God is sovereign over all nations and executes judgment according to His righteousness. The dispossession of the nations is a divine act of judgment against their idolatry and wickedness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_separation.htm">Holiness and Separation</a></b><br>Israel is called to be a holy nation, distinct from the surrounding peoples. This requires a separation from idolatrous practices and a commitment to God's commands.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_and_faithfulness.htm">Obedience and Faithfulness</a></b><br>The success of Israel in the Promised Land is contingent upon their obedience to God's commands. Faithfulness to God ensures His continued blessing and presence.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/w/warning_against_idolatry.htm">Warning Against Idolatry</a></b><br>The passage serves as a warning against the allure of idolatry and the cultural practices of the nations. Believers today must guard against adopting worldly values that conflict with their faith.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_promises.htm">Trust in God's Promises</a></b><br>Just as God promised to give Israel the land, He is faithful to fulfill His promises to His people today. Trusting in God's promises requires patience and faith.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_12.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 12</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_give_jehoram_a_fatal_disease.htm">Why does this passage depict God inflicting a fatal bowel disease on Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:18–19) instead of using more merciful methods? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_a_single_global_religion_possible.htm">Is a single global religion possible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_defines_worldliness.htm">What defines worldliness?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_the_damascus_altar_conflict_with_exodus.htm">Does the altar design brought from Damascus (2 Kings 16:10–11) conflict with earlier temple instructions in Exodus and Leviticus? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/12.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 29, 30.</span> - Here the speaker reverts to the admonition with which he began this part of his address (ver. 2); and warns the people against having any intercourse with the Canaanites in their idolatrous practices. <span class="cmt_word">That thou enquire not after their gods.</span> It was a general belief among the heathen that to ignore or neglect the deities of a country was sure to bring calamity (cf. <a href="/2_kings/17-26.htm">2 Kings 17:26</a>); hence the need of cautioning the Israelites against <span class="accented">inquiring</span> after the gods of the Canaanites when they should be settled in their land, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֨ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your God</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">cuts off</span><br /><span class="heb">יַכְרִית֩</span> <span class="translit">(yaḵ·rîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">before you</span><br /><span class="heb">מִפָּנֶ֑יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(mip·pā·ne·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the nations</span><br /><span class="heb">הַגּוֹיִ֗ם</span> <span class="translit">(hag·gō·w·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1471.htm">Strong's 1471: </a> </span><span class="str2">A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you</span><br /><span class="heb">אַתָּ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(’at·tāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_859.htm">Strong's 859: </a> </span><span class="str2">Thou and thee, ye and you</span><br /><br /><span class="word">are entering</span><br /><span class="heb">בָא־</span> <span class="translit">(ḇā-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to dispossess,</span><br /><span class="heb">לָרֶ֥שֶׁת</span> <span class="translit">(lā·re·šeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3423.htm">Strong's 3423: </a> </span><span class="str2">To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and you drive them out</span><br /><span class="heb">וְיָרַשְׁתָּ֣</span> <span class="translit">(wə·yā·raš·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3423.htm">Strong's 3423: </a> </span><span class="str2">To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and live</span><br /><span class="heb">וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖</span> <span class="translit">(wə·yā·šaḇ·tā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3427.htm">Strong's 3427: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in their land,</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאַרְצָֽם׃</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’ar·ṣām)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 12:29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off (Deut. 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