Deuteronomy 7:23 (DBY)

Passage

But Jehovah thy God will give them up before thee, and will confound them with great consternation, until they are destroyed.

Nearby Context

Deuteronomy 7:21 Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thy God is in thy midst, a God great and terrible.

Deuteronomy 7:22 And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Deuteronomy 7:23 But Jehovah thy God will give them up before thee, and will confound them with great consternation, until they are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 7:24 And he will give their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt put out their name from under the heavens; no man shall stand before thee, until thou hast destroyed them.

Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire; thou shalt not covet the silver and gold [that is] on them and take it unto thee, lest thou be ensnared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "jehovah", "give", "before", "thee", "confound", "great", "consternation", and "until". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "jehovah" and "give", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 22's "And Jehovah thy God will cast out..." into verse 24's "And he will give their kings into...", so "jehovah" and "give" belong inside that flow. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "jehovah" and "give" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.