27. “I will make your enemies afraid of me. I will confuse any people you fight against. I will make all your enemies run away from you.
28. I will send something like hornets ahead of you. They will force the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way.
29. But I will not force all those people out in only one year. If I did, the land would become a desert. Then the wild animals would become too many for you.
30. Instead, I will force those people out of your land very slowly. I will wait until there are enough of you to take over the land.
31. “I will give you the land from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea. And I will give you the land between the desert and the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the people who now live in the land. You will force them out ahead of you.
32. You must not make an agreement with those people or with their gods.
33. You must not let them live in your land. If they live there, they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, you will be like someone caught in a trap.”