Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

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

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

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.