Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 9:5

5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart , dost thou go to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob .

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To shew my faithfulness in accomplishing that promise which I graciously made and confirmed with my oath. By which words it is implyed, that this land was not given to them for the righteousness of their fathers though they were righteous and holy persons, and much less for their own righteousness, which they had not, as it follows.

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