and passing over the Jordan they possessed all the hill country. And they cast out before them the Canaanite, the Pherezite, the Jebusite, and the Sychemite, and all the Gergesites, and they lived in that country for many days.
While they did not sin before their God, they prospered, because the God who hates iniquity was with them.
But when they departed from the way which he appointed for them, they were destroyed in many battles very badly and were led captive into a land which was not their own,