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10 He continued: “By this you will know that there is a living God in your midst: he will certainly dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.(A)

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20 For it was the Lord’s doing to make their hearts obstinate to meet Israel in battle, that they might be put under the ban without mercy, and be destroyed as the Lord had commanded Moses.(A)

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28 and ahead of you I will send hornets[a] to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.

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Footnotes

  1. 23:28 Hornets: the Hebrew sir’ah is a disputed term, but according to ancient interpreters it refers to hornets that were unleashed against the enemy to sting them and cause panic (cf. Dt 7:20; Jos 24:12; Wis 12:8). Others associate the word with plagues or troublesome afflictions.

20 Moreover, the Lord, your God, will send hornets among them, until those who are left and those who are hiding from you are destroyed.(A)

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You rooted out nations to plant them,(A)
    crushed peoples and expelled them.

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