Passage
“When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
Nearby Context
Deuteronomy 7:1 “When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
Deuteronomy 7:2 and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, then you shall devote them to destruction. You shall cut no covenant with them and show no favor to them.
Deuteronomy 7:3 Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "yahweh", "brings", "land", "where", "entering", "possess", "clears", and "away". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "brings", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The next verse adds "and when Yahweh your God gives them...", so "yahweh" and "brings" should be read forward into that movement. In Deuteronomy context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "yahweh" and "brings" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.