Deuteronomy 9:3 KJV
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 shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy 9:3, King James Version
In context
2 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
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 shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
4 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.
Cross-references
- Deuteronomy 4:24 For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
- Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
- Deuteronomy 20:4 For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
- Deuteronomy 7:23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.