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. ¹ 

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. ² 

Deuteronomy 13:7

13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth ³  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 ⁴  you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it too remote.

[4:38]  ¹ tn Heb “(as) an inheritance,” that is, landed property that one can pass on to one’s descendants.

[9:1]  ² tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[13:7]  ³ tn Or “land” (so NIV, NCV); the same Hebrew word can be translated “land” or “earth.”

[30:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you.”