Leviticus 18:27

18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, ¹  and the land has become unclean.

Deuteronomy 9:5

9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, ²  that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he ³  made on oath to your ancestors, ⁴  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Psalms 78:59

78:59 God heard and was angry;

he completely rejected Israel.

Zechariah 11:8

11:8 Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, ⁵  for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.

¹ tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”

² tn Heb “uprightness of your heart” (so NASB, NRSV). The Hebrew word צְדָקָה (tsÿdaqah, “righteousness”), though essentially synonymous here with יֹשֶׁר (yosher, “uprightness”), carries the idea of conformity to an objective standard. The term יֹשֶׁר has more to do with an inner, moral quality (cf. NAB, NIV “integrity”). Neither, however, was grounds for the Lord’s favor. As he states in both vv. 4-5, the main reason he allowed Israel to take this land was the sinfulness of the Canaanites who lived there (cf. Gen 15:16).

³ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁴ tn Heb “fathers.”

³ sn Zechariah is only dramatizing what God had done historically (see the note on the word “cedars” in 11:1). The “one month” probably means just any short period of time in which three kings ruled in succession. Likely candidates are Elah, Zimri, Tibni (1 Kgs 16:8-20); Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem (2 Kgs 15:8-16); or Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah (2 Kgs 24:1–25:7).