“Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
Rather, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — the conquest is explained by two grounds: (1) the Canaanites' wickedness (their idolatry and abominations justify dispossession), and (2) the patriarchal covenant, which flows from divine promise alone, not from Israel's deserving. The land is given to fulfill an ancient oath.
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