It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Commentaries
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Not for thy righteousness ... dost thou go. —The pronoun is emphatic. There is no reason why you of all others s…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Not for your righteousness. First of all, he intended that the punishment inflicted upon these nations should awaken the Israelites to fea…
John Gill
JohnGill
Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your
heart
Neither for their ex…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Moses represents the strength of the enemies they were now to encounter. This was intended to drive them to God and engage their hope in Him. He as…
Charles Ellicott
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