Deuteronomy 31:5

5 And the Lord has delivered them to you; and ye shall do to them, as I charged you.

Deuteronomy 31:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 31:5

And the Lord shall give them up before your face
To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is,

``the Word of the Lord shall deliver them up:''

that ye may do unto them according to all the commandments which I
have commanded you;
that is, utterly destroy them, make no covenant with them, enter into no alliances nor contract any marriages with them; but demolish their altars, cut down their groves, and break their images in pieces; of which last Aben Ezra interprets the words; but they are not to be restrained to that single instance; see ( Deuteronomy 7:1-5 ) .

Deuteronomy 31:5 In-Context

3 The Lord thy God who goes before thee, he shall destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt inherit them: and Joshua that goes before thy face, as the Lord has spoken.

4 And the Lord thy God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them.

5 And the Lord has delivered them to you; and ye shall do to them, as I charged you.

6 Be courageous and strong, fear not, neither be cowardly neither be afraid before them; for the Lord your God that advances with you in the midst of you, neither will he by any means forsake thee, nor desert thee.

7 And Moses called Joshua, and said to him before all Israel, Be courageous and strong; for thou shalt go in before this people into the land which the Lord sware to your fathers to give to them, and thou shalt give it to them for an inheritance.

Footnotes

• [a] the nations.