Exodus 23:31-33
31 aAnd I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, ▼▼Hebrew the River
for cI will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 dYou shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, eit will surely be a snare to you.” Exodus 34:12
12 fTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a gsnare in your midst.Deuteronomy 7:2-16
2 hand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must idevote them to complete destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
kYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 lYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. mThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you nquickly. 5But thus shall you deal with them: oyou shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ppillars and chop down their qAsherim and rburn their carved images with fire. 6“For syou are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ta people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8but uit is because the Lord loves you and is keeping vthe oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, wthe faithful God xwho keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10and yrepays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. zHe will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 aaYou shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
12 ab“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you acthe covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. 13He will adlove you, bless you, and multiply you. aeHe will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above all peoples. afThere shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. 15And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil agdiseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. 16And ahyou shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. aiYour eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be aja snare to you.
Deuteronomy 26:16-17
16“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 akYou have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.Joshua 6:17
17And the city and all that is within it shall be aldevoted to the Lord for destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 18, 21
Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she anhid the messengers whom we sent. Joshua 8:2
2And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did aoto Jericho and its king. Only apits spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”Joshua 8:27
27Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he aqcommanded Joshua.Joshua 9:24
24They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had arcommanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so aswe feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.
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