Not Because of Righteousness

9 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^(A)to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^(B)greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

³¹ For you are ^(A)to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,

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

²⁸ Where are we going up? ^(A)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, ^(B)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ^(C)the sons of the Anakim there.”’

²³ then the Lord ^(A)will drive out all these nations before you, and you will ^(B)dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.

¹¹ “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for ^(A)within three days ^(B)you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’”

A Chosen People

7 “When the ^(A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^(B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^(C)more numerous and mightier than you,

¹⁸ “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. ^(A)All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel.

¹⁹ The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at ^(A)Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

⁵ And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,