“Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.”
After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, 'The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness'; and it is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land — the prohibition against self-righteousness is absolute and emphatic. The land is not earned by Israel's moral virtue; Israel's rightness does not merit divine action.
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