Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
"A certain completeness and finish are given to each division of the narrative; and, in order to effect this, the writer more than once repeats himself, anticipates the actual order of events, and distributes into parts occurrence which in fact took place once for all."[22]