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and led them by way of Sinai and Kadesh-barnea. They drove out all of the inhabitants of the desert.
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They lived in the land of the Amorites and destroyed all the Heshbonites with their strength. Once they had crossed the Jordan, they took possession of all the highlands.
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They drove out the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Shechemites, and all the Gergesites, and they lived there for a long time.
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"As long as they didn't sin against their God, they prospered, because the God who hates wrongdoing was with them.
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But when they neglected the way God had laid out for them, they were greatly defeated in many battles and taken as prisoners to a foreign land. The temple of their God was burned to the ground, and their enemies took possession of their cities.