If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

Be careful ¹  not to say, “My own ability and skill ²  have gotten me this wealth.”

Now if you say to yourselves, ¹  ‘How can we tell that a message is not from the Lord?’ ²  –

Remember the whole way by which he ¹  has brought you these forty years through the desert ²  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

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.