LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at
once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
[23] But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto
thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
[24] And he shall deliver
their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be
able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
[25] The graven images of their gods shall ye
burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be
snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
[26] Neither shalt thou bring an abomination
into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly
abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Deut.8
[1] All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and
multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
[2] And thou shalt
remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble
thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments,
or no.
[3] And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest
not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
[4] Thy raiment waxed not
old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
[5] Thou shalt also consider in thine heart,
that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
[6] Therefore thou shalt keep
the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
[7] For the LORD thy
God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out
of valleys and hills;
[8] A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land
of oil olive, and honey;
[9] A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack
any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
[10] When
thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath
given thee.
[11] Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and
his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
[12] Lest when thou hast eaten and art
full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
[13] And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and
thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
[14] Then thine heart be lifted up,
and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house
of bondage;
[15] Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents,
and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of
flint;
[16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble
thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
[17] And thou say in thine heart,
My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
[18] But thou shalt remember the LORD
thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he
sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
[19] And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God,
and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall
surely perish.
[20] As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because
ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Deut.9
[1] Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier
than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
[2] A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims,
whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
[3]
Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming
fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out,
and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
[4] Speak not thou in thine heart, after that
the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath
brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them
out from before thee.
[5] Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go