Drive Out the Inhabitants
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And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
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"Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, s When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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then t you shall drive out u all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their v figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
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And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
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w You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. x To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
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But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as y barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
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And I will do to you z as I thought to do to them."
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:1
Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
Joshua 3:17
Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.
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Cross References
Numbers 32:21
And every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has driven out his enemies from before him
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Cross References
Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods nor serve ...
Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they ma...
Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break thei...
Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to y...
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall br...
Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pi...
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.
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Cross References
Numbers 26:53
Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.
Numbers 26:55
But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
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Cross References
Numbers 26:54
To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.
Numbers 35:8
And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.
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Cross References
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Psalms 106:34
They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord commanded them.
Psalms 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:63
And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
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