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A Comprehensive Command
Commentators clarify that this verse refers back to the commands in Deuteronomy 7. Israel was not just to win a military victory, but to utterly remove the Canaanite peoples and their idolatrous practices—including their altars and images—to preserve their own covenant faithfulness to God.
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Deuteronomy
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Charles Ellicott
On Deuteronomy 31:1–8
19th Century
Bishop
Deuteronomy 31:1–8. MOSES RESIGNS HIS CHARGE AS LEADER TO JOSHUA.
And Moses went and spoke.
John Gill
On Deuteronomy 31:5
17th Century
Pastor
And the Lord shall give them up before your face
To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is, ``the Word of t…
Matthew Henry
On Deuteronomy 31:1–8
17th Century
Minister
Moses assures Israel of the constant presence of God with them. This is applied by the apostle to all God's spiritual Israel, to encourage their fa…