know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, as the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan.

To take

In the future Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;

Thou hast planted them, they also have taken root: they advance, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

And it

Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword; and of Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.

And David took not their number from twenty years old and under; for Jehovah had said he would increase Israel as the stars of heaven.