The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had already been commanded (see the marginal references); and Nu…

But if you will not drive out. We have elsewhere seen why God’s wrath was so greatly aroused against those nations that He desired them to…

But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land
before you
Should be remiss…

Now that they were to pass over Jordan, they were entering again into temptation to follow idols; and they are threatened that, if they spared eith…