No man will be able to stand before you; the Lord your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.The thing that caught my eye here is that God promised that He will put in the natives the fear of the Israelites. I expected that He would promise instead to put the fear of Him into them, so that they would know He was the one causing Israel's success. After all, the Israelites have already tried this invasion once and failed, so why should the people be afraid of them?
Perhaps I'm reading too much into this. After all, at this point anyone who knows the Israelites are coming probably knows that their God is powerful, and has given them victory many times. So maybe it's implied that this is the cause of their victory. But I expected Him to be a bit more explicit in claiming the victory.
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