Deu 7:2, 20:17, 1Sa 15:3 | 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 20:17

17 but ^eyou shall devote them to complete destruction, ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,

1 Samuel 15:3

3 Now go and strike Amalek and ^gdevote to destruction ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21} all that they have. Do not spare them, ⁱbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”