The Lord Your God Lays a Blessing and a Curse Upon Mount Ebal

Behold, i set before you this day a blessing and a curse. If you will be careful to do all this commandment which i command you to do, loving the lord your god, walking in all his ways and clinging to him, then the lord will drive out all these nations before you. You will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. The lord your god will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you. Are they not beyond the jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun,