Obey the laws that I am giving you today. I will drive out the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as you advance.

"I will make the people who oppose you afraid of me; I will bring confusion among the people against whom you fight, and I will make all your enemies turn and run from you.

I will not drive them out within a year's time; if I did, the land would become deserted, and the wild animals would be too many for you.

I will send an angel to guide you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these acts, for that is how the pagans made themselves unclean, those pagans who lived in the land before you and whom the LORD is driving out so that you can go in.

"The LORD your God will bring you into the land that you are going to occupy, and he will drive many nations out of it. As you advance, he will drive out seven nations larger and more powerful than you: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced; he divided their land among the tribes of Israel and gave their homes to his people.

You brought a grapevine out of Egypt; you drove out other nations and planted it in their land.

I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out as you advance.

"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.

"When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he told your ancestors he would, and gives you all the land he has promised,

But Jabez prayed to the God of Israel, "Bless me, God, and give me much land. Be with me and keep me from anything evil that might cause me pain." And God gave him what he prayed for.

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

The LORD made all the surrounding kingdoms afraid to go to war against King Jehoshaphat.

You have always protected him and his family and everything he owns. You bless everything he does, and you have given him enough cattle to fill the whole country.

When you please the LORD, you can make your enemies into friends.

for I am with you. No one will be able to harm you, for many in this city are my people."