driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you,

“If you should say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.