Deuteronomy 9:1-8 ▼

1 |Listen, Israel! Today you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and dispossess greater and mightier nations than you, who live in large cities that are fortified to the sky.

2 The Anakim are strong and tall, and you know them. You've heard it said, 'Who can stand up against the Anakim?'

3 But know today that the LORD your God is going ahead of you as a consuming fire. He will destroy and subdue them before you. He will dispossess and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD told you.

4 After the LORD has expelled them before you, you are not to say to yourselves, 'The LORD caused me to enter and possess this land because of my righteousness.'

5 On the contrary, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you to confirm what the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

6 Know that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving to you this good land to inherit, for you are a stubborn people.|

7 |Remember—and don't ever forget—how you provoked the LORD your God in the desert. From the day that you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place you have been rebelling against the LORD.

8 At Horeb you continually rebelled against the LORD, so that he was angry enough to destroy you.