Deuteronomy 9:3

9:3 Understand today that the Lord your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he ¹  has told you.

Deuteronomy 19:1

Laws Concerning Manslaughter

19:1 When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he ²  is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

Exodus 23:23

23:23 For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely. ³ 

Joshua 23:4

23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, ⁴  from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea ⁵  in the west, including all the nations I defeated. ⁶ 

Psalms 78:55

78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;

he assigned them their tribal allotments ⁷ 

and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” The pronoun has been used in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style to avoid redundancy.

² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

³ tn Heb “will cut them off” (so KJV, ASV).

⁴ tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

⁵ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

⁶ tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.

⁷ tn Heb “he caused to fall [to] them with a measuring line an inheritance.”

⁸ tn Heb “and caused the tribes of Israel to settle down in their tents.”