Not Because of Israel’s Righteousness

9 Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan^(A) to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you,^(B) with large cities^(C) that have walls up to the sky.^(D)

Cities of Refuge^(A)

19 When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,^(B)

¹³ So I gave you a land^(A) on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’^(B)