Deu 7:2, 12:2 | ESV | STEP | and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction . You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

Deuteronomy 7:2

2 ^aand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^bdevote them to complete destruction. ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} ^dYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

Deuteronomy 12:2

2 ^eYou shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, ^fon the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.