Deuteronomy 28:10

28:10 Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, ¹  and they will respect you.

Deuteronomy 14:24

14:24 When he ²  blesses you, if the ³  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Deuteronomy 4:38

4:38 to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property. ⁴ 

Deuteronomy 7:15

7:15 The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 13:7

13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ⁶  to the other).

Deuteronomy 20:15

20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 30:11

Exhortation to Covenant Obedience

30:11 “This commandment I am giving ⁷  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

Deuteronomy 7:1

The Dispossession of Nonvassals

7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, ⁸  Girgashites, ⁹  Amorites, ¹⁰  Canaanites, ¹¹  Perizzites, ¹²  Hivites, ¹³  and Jebusites, ¹⁴  seven ¹⁵  nations more numerous and powerful than you –

Deuteronomy 12:21

12:21 If the place he ¹⁶  chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he ¹⁷  has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages ¹⁸  just as you wish.

Deuteronomy 17:8

Appeal to a Higher Court

17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, ¹⁹  legal claim, ²⁰  or assault ²¹  – matters of controversy in your villages ²²  – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses. ²³ 

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ²⁴  and troops ²⁵  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

[28:10]  ¹ tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 s.v. קָרָא Niph. 2.d.(4).

[14:24]  ² tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 14:2.

[14:24]  ³ tn The Hebrew text includes “way is so far from you that you are unable to carry it because the.” These words have not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because they are redundant.

[4:38]  ³ tn Heb “(as) an inheritance,” that is, landed property that one can pass on to one’s descendants.

[9:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[13:7]  ⁵ tn Or “land” (so NIV, NCV); the same Hebrew word can be translated “land” or “earth.”

[30:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you.”

[7:1]  ⁷ sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

[7:1]  ⁸ sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).

[7:1]  ⁹ sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

[7:1]  ¹⁰ sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

[7:1]  ¹¹ sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[7:1]  ¹² sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

[7:1]  ¹³ sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

[7:1]  ¹⁴ sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.

[12:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 12:5.

[12:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “gates” (so KJV, NASB); NAB “in your own community.”

[17:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “between blood and blood.”

[17:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “between claim and claim.”

[17:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “between blow and blow.”

[17:8]  ¹² tn Heb “gates.”

[17:8]  ¹³ tc Several Greek recensions add “to place his name there,” thus completing the usual formula to describe the central sanctuary (cf. Deut 12:5, 11, 14, 18; 16:6). However, the context suggests that the local Levitical towns, and not the central sanctuary, are in mind.

[20:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

[20:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “people.”