7 “When Jehovah your God at last brings you into the land to which you are going so as to take possession of it,+ he must also clear away populous nations from before you,+ the Hitʹtites+ and the Girʹga·shites+ and the Amʹor·ites+ and the Caʹnaan·ites+ and the Perʹiz·zites+ and the Hiʹvites+ and the Jebʹu·sites,+ seven nations more populous and mighty than you are.+

9 “Hear, O Israel, you are today crossing the Jordan+ to go in and dispossess nations greater and mightier than you,+ cities great and fortified to the heavens,+

17 Meanwhile the priests carrying the ark of Jehovah’s covenant kept standing immovable on dry ground+ in the middle of the Jordan as all Israel were passing over on dry ground,+ until the whole nation had completed passing over the Jordan.