Deuteronomy 32:26

The Weakness of Other Gods

32:26 “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. ¹ 

I want to make people forget they ever existed.

Joshua 11:23

11:23 Joshua conquered ²  the whole land, just as the Lord had promised Moses, ³  and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. ⁴  Then the land was free of war.

¹ tc The LXX reads “I said I would scatter them.” This reading is followed by a number of English versions (e.g., KJV, ASV, NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT, CEV).

² tn Heb “took.”

³ tn Heb “according to all which the Lord said to Moses.” The translation assumes this refers to the promise of the land (see 1:3). Another possibility is that it refers to the Lord’s instructions, in which case the phrase could be translated, “just as the Lord had instructed Moses” (so NLT; cf. also NIV “had directed Moses”).

⁴ tn Heb “and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their allotted portions by their tribes.”