Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite ... (As to the absolute right of God, as the Creator and Proprietor of the earth, to make a free gift of any portion of it; as to His justice in employing the Israelites as the instruments of His providence in exterminating the occupiers of Canaan, who were a race of incorrigible and hopeless sinners; and as to His faithfulness in fulfilling His promise made to the patriarchal ancestors of Israel, by settling them in the land of promise, see the note at Exodus 23:27-33; and further at Deuteronomy 7:1-5; Deuteronomy 20:16-17; Joshua 21:43.)