Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
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22“You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and you allocated them to every corner of the land. They inherited the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
25They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things– wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”
38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
8Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.
44He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.
5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.
4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?
24You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.
9I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.
31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.
5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.
1Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
10When you invade, you will encounter unsuspecting people. The land is wide! God is handing it over to you– a place that lacks nothing on earth!”
21Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!”
11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.
21The LORD God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.
8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
2You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”
24He will hand over their kings to you and you will erase their very names from memory. Nobody will be able to resist you until you destroy them.
1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–
43So the LORD gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.
19After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.
12He gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance to Israel his people.
35So they defeated Og, his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, and they possessed his land.
24Israel’s power continued to overwhelm King Jabin of Canaan until they did away with him.
30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.
31The LORD said to me,“Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.”
1Theological Justification of the Conquest Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.
2They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said,“Who is able to resist the Anakites?”
18Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes At that time I instructed you as follows:“The LORD your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.
23But when they came in and took possession of it, they did not obey you or live as you had instructed them. They did not do anything that you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.
55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
24They told Joshua,“Surely the LORD is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”
9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
22and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD’s sight.
8The Abundance of the Land of Promise Now pay attention to all the commandments I am giving you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed,
25Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying,“The land that the LORD our God is about to give us is good.”
15You provided bread from heaven for them in their time of hunger, and you brought forth water from the rock for them in their time of thirst. You told them to enter in order to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.