King James Version
Deuteronomy 1:30 in the King James Version says “The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before y...” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;”
Deuteronomy 1:30 · KJV
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there. discouraged: Heb. melted
Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“your God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“which goeth”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“for you according to all that he did”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc
“before your eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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