SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:3
Sepas, pues, hoy, que el SEÑOR tu Dios es el que pasa delante de ti, fuego consumidor, que los destruirá y humillará delante de ti; y tú los echarás, y los destruirás luego, como el SEÑOR te ha dicho.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Understand therefore this day , etc.] Or be it known to you for your encouragement, and believe it: that the Lord thy God [is] he which goeth over before thee as a consuming fire : did not only go before them over the river Jordan, in a pillar of cloud and fire, to guide and direct them, and was a wall of fire around them to protect and defend them, but as a consuming fire, before which there is no standing, to destroy their enemies; (see Deuteronomy 4:24 Hebrews 12:29), he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face ; be they as great and as mighty, as large and as tall as they may, they will not be able to stand before the Lord, but will soon be made low, and be easily brought down to the earth by him, and to utter destruction; which would be done in a public and visible manner, so as that the hand of the Lord would be seen in it by the Israelites: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee ; that is, the far greater part of them, and so many as to make room for the Israelites, and which was quickly done. The Jews commonly say f97 , that they were seven years in subduing the land; otherwise they were not to be driven out and destroyed at once, but by little and little: (see Deuteronomy 7:22).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Moses represents the strength of the enemies they were now to encounter. This was to drive them to God, and engage their hope in him He assures them of victory, by the presence of God with them. He cautions them not to have the least thought of their own righteousness as if that procured this favour at God's hand. In Christ we have bot righteousness and strength; in Him we must glory, not in ourselves, no in any sufficiency of our own. It is for the wickedness of thes nations that God drives them out. All whom God rejects, are rejecte for their own wickedness; but none whom he accepts are accepted for their own righteousness. Thus boasting is for ever done away: see Ep 2:9, 11, 12.
Original Hebrew
וידעת 3045 היום 3117 כי 3588 יהוה 3068 אלהיך 430 הוא 1931 העבר 5674 לפניך 6440 אשׁ 784 אכלה 398 הוא 1931 ישׁמידם 8045 והוא 1931 יכניעם 3665 לפניך 6440 והורשׁתם 3423 והאבדתם 6 מהר 4118 כאשׁר 834 דבר 1696 יהוה׃ 3068
