Numbers 33:53

53 and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to inherit it.

Numbers 33:53 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 33:53

And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell
therein
Turn them out of their cities, towns, and houses, and inhabit them:

for I have given you the land to possess it;
who had a right to dispose of it, and a better title they needed not desire than the Lord could and did make them.

Numbers 33:53 In-Context

51 Speak unto the sons of Israel and say unto them, When ye have passed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and abolish all their paintings and abolish all their molten images and destroy all their high places,

53 and ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to inherit it.

54 And ye shall inherit the land by lots by your families, and to those with the most ye shall give more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give less inheritance, each one’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falls; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that those whom ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides and shall afflict you in the land in which ye dwell.