²⁴Do not bow in worship to their gods, and do not serve them. Do not imitate their practices. Instead, demolish them^A and smash their sacred pillars to pieces.^u ²⁵Serve the Lord your God, and he^B will bless your bread and your water. I will remove illnesses from you.^v ²⁶No woman will miscarry or be childless in your land. I will give you the full number of your days.^w

²⁷“I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror^C and will throw into confusion^x all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.^D ²⁸I will send hornets^E^y in front of you, and they will drive the Hivites, Canaanites, and Hethites away from you. ²⁹I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you. ³⁰I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous^F and take possession of the land. ³¹I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,^G and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River.^H For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.^a ³²You must not make a covenant^b with them or their gods. ³³They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.”^c

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Footnotes

AProbably the idols
B, read I
C will send terror of me ahead of you
DOr I will give your enemies to you by the neck
EOr send panic
F fruitful
G the Sea of the Philistines
H the River

Cross references

u Ex 20:5; 34:13; Nm 33:52; Dt 12:30
v Ex 15:26; Dt 6:13; 7:15; 28:5,8; Mt 4:10
w Dt 7:14; Jb 5:26; Mal 3:11
x Dt 2:25; 7:23
y Dt 7:20; Jos 24:12
a Gn 15:18; Dt 11:24; Jos 21:44; 1Kg 4:21
b Ex 34:12,15; Dt 7:2
c Dt 7:16; Ps 106:36