Deu 7:1, 9:1, Jos 3:17 | ESV | STEP | When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites , the Girgashites , the Amorites , the Canaanites , the Perizzites , the Hivites , and the Jebusites , seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,

Deuteronomy 7:1

A Chosen People

1 “When the ^aLord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, ^bthe Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ^cmore numerous and mightier than you,

Deuteronomy 9:1

Not Because of Righteousness

1 “Hear, O Israel: you are ^dto cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations ^egreater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Joshua 3:17

17 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, ^fand all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.