Deuteronomy 1:30

30 Yahweh your God, who is going {before you},^[a] will himself^[b] fight for you, {just as}^[c] he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

Deuteronomy 1:30 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:30

The Lord your God, which goeth before you
In a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night:

he shall fight for you;
wherefore, though their enemies were greater and taller than they, yet their God was higher than the highest; and cities walled up to heaven would signify nothing to him, whose throne is in the heavens:

according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes:
which is observed to encourage their faith in God; for he that wrought such wonders in Egypt for them, which their eyes, at least some of them, and their fathers, however, had seen, what is it he cannot do?

Deuteronomy 1:30 In-Context

28 Where [can] we go up? Our brothers have {made our hearts melt}, {saying}, "The people are greater and taller than we are, [and there are] great fortified cities [reaching] up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites [living] there." '

29 "And so I said to you, 'Do not be terrified, and do not fear them.

30 Yahweh your God, who is going {before you}, will himself fight for you, {just as} he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

31 and [just as he did] in the wilderness when you saw that Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone carries his son, all [along] the way [that] you traveled until {you reached} this place.'

32 But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "to your faces"
• [b]. The Hebrew pronoun indicates emphasis
• [c]. Literally "like all that"