A Chosen People(A)

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

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38 (A)driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.

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The Lord your God (A)Himself crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. (B)Joshua himself crosses over before you, just (C)as the Lord has said.

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Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed(A)

“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

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19 And when He had destroyed (A)seven nations in the land of Canaan, (B)He distributed their land to them by allotment.

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(A)You drove out the [a]nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
For (B)they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
(C)Because You favored them.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 44:2 Gentiles, heathen

Principles Governing Warfare

20 “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see (A)horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be (B)afraid of them; for the Lord your God is (C)with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.

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(A)“Do not think in your heart, after the Lord your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; but it is (B)because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out from before you.

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Moses Commands Obedience

“Now, O Israel, listen to (A)the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and [a]possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you. (B)You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at (C)Baal Peor; for the Lord your God has destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal of Peor.

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  1. Deuteronomy 4:1 take possession of

(A)And I will send My Angel before you, (B)and I will drive out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

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18 On the same day the Lord (A)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

(B)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

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55 (A)He also drove out the nations before them,
(B)Allotted them an inheritance by [a]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

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  1. Psalm 78:55 surveyed measurement, lit. measuring cord

20 When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves (A)and grown fat, (B)then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.

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29 Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the (A)blessing on Mount Gerizim and the (B)curse on Mount Ebal.

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23 Then He brought us out from there, that He might bring us in, to give us the land of which He [a]swore to our fathers.

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:23 promised

19 (A)to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.

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Caution Against Disobedience

10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He [a]swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities (A)which you did not build,

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  1. Deuteronomy 6:10 promised

The Greatest Commandment

“Now this is (A)the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess,

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31 (A)But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall [a]know the land which (B)you have despised.

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  1. Numbers 14:31 be acquainted with

28 And (A)I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.

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And in the greatness of Your (A)excellence
You have overthrown those who rose against You;
You sent forth (B)Your wrath;
It (C)consumed them (D)like stubble.

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And I will bring you into the land which I (A)swore[a] to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 6:8 promised, lit. lifted up My hand

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