Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 9:1

1 HEar, O Israel, thou art to pass over Jordan this day , to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thy self , cities great and fenced up to heaven .

(i. e.) Shortly, within a little time, the word day being oft put for time, as Iob. 8. 56. 1 Cor. 4. 5. Revd. 16. 14. within two moneths: for Moses spake this on the first day of the eleventh moneth, Deut. 1. 3. and they passed over Ierdan on the tenth day of the first moneth, Ios. 4. 19.

(i. e.) The land of those nations; for that onely they were to possess, but as for the Nations or people they were not to possess, but to destroy them. Thus they are said to [illegible: 1 word] Gad, Ier. 4[illegible: 1+ letters]. 1. i. e. the Country and [illegible: 1 word] of Gad, as it is there explained.

This he adds, partly that they might not be surprized when they find them to be such: partly that they [illegible: 1+ letters]ght not trust to their own strength, but wholly rely upon Gods help for the destroying of them▪ and, after the work was done, might ascribe the p[illegible: 1+ letters]se and glory of it to God alone, and not to themselves.

As the Spies reported, Deut. 1. 28. See on Gen. 11. 4.

Marginal references: Chap. 1. 28.