Numbers Chapter 33 verse 56 Holy Bible

ASV Numbers 33:56

And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.
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BBE Numbers 33:56

And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.
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DARBY Numbers 33:56

And it shall come to pass that I will do unto you as I thought to do unto them.
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KJV Numbers 33:56

Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.
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WBT Numbers 33:56

Moreover, it shall come to pass, that I shall do to you as I thought to do to them.
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WEB Numbers 33:56

It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.
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YLT Numbers 33:56

and it hath come to pass, as I thought to do to them -- I do to you.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 56. - I shaft do unto you as I thought to do unto them, i.e., I shall execute by other hands upon you the sentence of dispossession which ye shall have refused to execute upon the Canaanites. The threat (although in fact fulfilled) does not necessarily involve any prophecy, since to settle down among the remnants of the heathen was a course of action which would obviously and for many reasons commend itself to the Israelites. Indolence and cowardice were consulted by such a policy as much as the natural feelings of pity towards vanquished and apparently harmless foes. The command to extirpate was certainly justified in this case (if it could be in any) by the unhappy consequences of its neglect. Israel being what he was, and so little severed in anything but religion from the ancient heathen, his only chance of future happiness lay in keeping himself from any contact with them. On the morality of the command itself, see on the passages referred to, and on the slaughter of the Midianites. As a fact, the extirpation of the conquered did not offend the moral sense of the Jews then any more than it did that of our heathen Saxon ancestors. Where both races could not dwell in security, it was a matter of course that the weaker was destroyed. Such a command was therefore justified at that time by the end to be attained, because it was not contrary to the moral law as then revealed, or to the moral sense as then educated. Being in itself a lawful proceeding, it was made a religious proceeding, and taken out of the category of selfish violence by being made a direct command of God.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(56) Moreover it shall come to pass . . . --Better, And it shall come to pass that, as I have thought (or, determined) to do unto them, so will I do unto you. It must be borne in mind that the idolatrous inhabitants of Canaan were never wholly exterminated, and the pernicious influence which they exercised was felt throughout the whole of the history of the Israelites until the judgments threatened against them were finally executed in the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.