found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words, for you are righteous.
Asa cried to YHWH his God, and said, “YHWH, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, YHWH our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. YHWH, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
I will take y’all as my people. I will be y’all’s God, and y’all will know that I am YHWH, y’all’s God, who brought y’all out from under the forced labor of the Egyptians.
I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
No longer do I call y’all servants, for the servant doesn’t know what their lord does. But I have called y’all friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to y’all.
So I gave y’all a land on which y’all had not labored, and cities which y’all didn’t build, and y’all live in them. Y’all eat of vineyards and olive groves which y’all didn’t plant.’
For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.