Deuteronomy 9:3

Understand therefore. — Literally, the connection seems to be this: “The children of Anakim thou knowest — thou knowest also (the same word) to-day, that it is Jehovah thy God Himself that passeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He will destroy them, and He will make them to bow down before thee. And thou shalt make a conquest of them, and speedily annihilate them, according as Jehovah hath commanded thee.”