⁹ And Joshua said to the Israelites,^[a] “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.” ¹⁰ Joshua said, “By this you will know that the living God is in your midst, and he will certainly drive out the Canaanites from before you,^[b] and the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. ¹¹ Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth^[c] is about to cross over ahead of you into the Jordan.