by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.
Here, I. Moses charges them to keep God's commandments themselves: You shall diligently keep God's commandments, Deu 6:17-19. Note, It requires a great deal of care and pains to keep up religion in the power of it in our hearts and lives. Negligence will ruin us; but we cannot be saved without diligence. To induce them to this, he here shows them, 1.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 6:17-25
To cast out all thine enemies from before thee,.... This the Lord promised, and as it seems with an oath, that he would do for them; drive out their enemies, and make way for the settlement of them in their country: as the Lord hath spoken; see Gen 15:18.
Deu 6:17-19 They were rather to observe all His commandments diligently, and do what was right and good in His eyes. The infinitive וגו להדף contains the further development of וגו ייטב למען: “so that He (Jehovah) thrust out all thine enemies before thee, as He hath spoken” (viz., Exo 23:27., Deu 34:11).
Commenting on Deuteronomy 6:17-19