more numerous and powerful than you. Ironically, these are the words that the Pharaoh who enslaved Israel used to describe the Israelites: “Here, the people of the children of Israel is more numerous and powerful than we” (Exod 1:9). But the situation is reversed. The Pharaoh tells his people that they should fear Israel on account of its great size. But God now tells the Israelites not to fear the Canaanite peoples on account of their size.
