16And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
17If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?
18Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;
19The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.
20And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.
21Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.
22The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.
