¹⁰ And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that ^(A)the living God is among you, and that He will without fail ^(B)drive out from before you the ^(C)Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites:

A Chosen People^(A)

7 “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,

^2 (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.

²⁶ Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away ^(A)the reproach from Israel? For who is this ^(B)uncircumcised Philistine, that he should ^(C)defy the armies of ^(D)the living God?”

^31 (A)It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

^4 (A)It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to ^(B)reproach the living God, and will ^(C)rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

¹² And the ^(A)Angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, “The Lord is ^(B)with you, you mighty man of valor!”

¹³ Gideon said to Him, “O ^[a]my lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And ^(C)where are all His miracles ^(D)which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has ^(E)forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”