know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.

“You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,
And allotted them to them as a boundary.

They took possession of the land of Sihon the king of Heshbon

And the land of Og the king of Bashan.

To take

In the days to come Jacob will take root,

Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

You have planted them, they have also taken root;
They grow, they have even produced fruit.
You are near to their lips
But far from their mind.

And it

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Joab gave the number of the census of all the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.