Study Desk

"The Lord your God will bring you into the land you are taking for your own. He will drive away many nations in front of you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations bigger and stronger than you.

When the Lord your God gives them to you and you win the battles against them, you must destroy all of them. Make no agreement with them and show no favor to them.

"For you are a holy nation to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the nations on the earth, to be His own.

Know then that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He keeps His promise and shows His loving-kindness to those who love Him and keep His Laws, even to a thousand family groups in the future.

"If you listen to these Laws and keep and obey them, the Lord your God will keep His agreement and loving-kindness as He promised to your fathers.

You will destroy all the nations the Lord your God will give to you. You will not pity them or worship their gods, for that would be a trap to you.

But you will not be afraid of them. You will remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

You will remember the hard trials you saw, the powerful works, and the strong hand and powerful arm the Lord your God used to bring you out. The Lord your God will do the same to all the nations who make you afraid.

And the Lord your God will send the hornet against them. Those who are left will hide themselves from you and be destroyed.

You will not be afraid of them. For the Lord your God is among you, a great and powerful God.

The Lord your God will drive away these nations in front of you one by one. You will not be able to destroy them in a short time, or the wild animals may become too many for you.

But the Lord your God will give them to you. He will bring much trouble upon them until they are destroyed.

You must burn with fire their objects of worship. Do not want the silver or gold that is on them, or take it for yourselves. It would be a trap to you, for it is a hated thing to the Lord your God.

You will remember all the way the Lord your God led you in the desert these forty years, so you would not have pride, and how He tested you to know what was in your heart to see if you would obey His Laws or not.

So know in your heart that the Lord your God was punishing you just as a man punishes his son.

Keep the Laws of the Lord your God. Walk in His ways, and fear Him.

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of rivers and wells of water, flowing into valleys from hills.

When you have eaten and are filled, you will honor and thank the Lord your God for the good land He has given you.

"Be careful not to forget the Lord your God by not keeping all His Laws which I am telling you today.

be careful not to become proud. Do not forget the Lord your God Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house where you were servants.