¹⁸ but the mountain country shall be yours. Although it is wooded, you shall cut it down, and its ^[a]farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, ^(A)though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

⁶ So we may boldly say:

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? ^(A)If God is for us, who can be against us?

^37 (A)Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

⁶ But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; ⁷ and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: ^(A)“The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. ⁸ If the Lord ^(B)delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ^(C)‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’ ⁹ Only ^(D)do not rebel against the Lord, ^(E)nor fear the people of the land, for ^(F)they^[a] are our bread; their protection has departed from them, ^(G)and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”

An Exuberant Declaration of Faith

A Psalm of David.

¹⁵ So Joshua answered them, “If you are a great people, then go up to the forest country and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and the giants, since the mountains of Ephraim are too confined for you.”

¹⁶ But the children of Joseph said, “The mountain country is not enough for us; and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have ^(A)chariots of iron, both those who are of Beth Shean and its towns and those who are ^(B)of the Valley of Jezreel.”