Deuteronomy 9:4-5
9:4 Do not think to yourself after the
Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the
Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
9:5 It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness,
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
made on oath to your ancestors,
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 18:12
18:12 Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the
Lord and because of these detestable things
the
Lord your God is about to drive them out
from before you.
Joshua 3:10
3:10 Joshua continued,
“This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Psalms 44:2
44:2 You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land;
you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
Psalms 78:55
78:55 He drove the nations out from before them;
he assigned them their tribal allotments
and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
Micah 4:5
4:5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods,
we will follow the Lord our God forever.