The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.Again, we get a look inside God's strategy for His people. God could easily give them victory after victory, a nonstop march through the entire land with every town being cleared quickly, but he won't. Apparently the land is not so heavily settled that predators have been driven out, and they would overrun the land while the Israelites were still setting up shop.
God knows the pace at which we can cope with new situations. He knows how fast we can do something, and will not rush us beyond what we can take. However, that doesn't mean that we necessarily know how much we are capable of, and He may push us faster than we thought we could go. After all, the Israelites didn't think they would really stand a chance against one of the nations in the land, much less all seven. They were pushed faster than they thought possible, and look what God gave them.
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