²⁸ What shall we meet with up there? Our men have made our hearts melt by saying, ‘The people are bigger and taller than we, and their cities are large and fortified to the sky; besides, we saw the Anakim^[a] there.’”^(A)

²⁹ But I said to you, “Have no dread or fear of them. ^30 (B)The Lord, your God, who goes before you, is the one who will fight for you, just as he acted with you before your very eyes in Egypt, ³¹ as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”

²² Do not fear them, for it is the Lord, your God, who will fight for you.”^(A)

³⁴ Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders,^(A) by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

³⁷ For love of your ancestors he chose their descendants after them and by his presence and great power led you out of Egypt, ³⁸ dispossessing before you nations greater and mightier than you, so as to bring you in and to give their land to you as a heritage, as it is today.

Chapter 9

Unmerited Success. ¹ Hear, O Israel! You are now about to cross the Jordan to enter in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourselves, having large cities fortified to the heavens,^{(A) 2} the Anakim, a people great and tall.^(B) You yourselves know of them and have heard it said of them, “Who can stand up against the Anakim?” ³ Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.^(C)

Chapter 20

Courage in War. ¹ When you go out to war against your enemies and you see horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord, your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, will be with you.

² the great testings your own eyes have seen, and those great signs and wonders.^{(A) 3} But the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear until this day.^(B)

³ You have seen all that the Lord, your God, has done for you against all these nations; for it has been the Lord, your God, who fought for you.

⁹ At your approach the Lord has dispossessed great and strong nations; not one has withstood you up to this day. ¹⁰ One of you puts to flight a thousand, because it is the Lord, your God, himself who fights for you,^(A) as he promised you.