“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,”
Hear, O Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky — the crossing of the Jordan is imminent, and Israel faces humanly impossible odds (greater nations, fortified cities). This introduction sets up the central theological point: the conquest is not achieved by Israel's righteousness or strength.
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