“To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.”
To drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day -- the divine action extends to dispossessing current inhabitants. The nations are 'greater and mightier,' yet the LORD drives them out. Conquest is gift, not achievement. The phrase 'as at this day' suggests that the conquest is ongoing (from the narrator's perspective of Transjordanian settlement).
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