He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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Gill's Exposition
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,.... After the death of Joshua, and in the times of the judges, by worshipping and serving the gods of the nations, and forsaking the Lord their God,…
Barnes' Notes
He cast out the heathen also before them - literally, the nations. The idea of their being pagan, in the sense which is now attached to that word, is not in the original. The word is one which would…
The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…
Cambridge Bible
And he drove out the nations before them,
And allotted them for the portion of their inheritance:
i.e. distributed the land of the Canaanites among the Israelites by lot. Cp. Jos 23:4; Psa 105:11.
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