Exodus 23:32
32 aYou shall make no covenant with them and their gods.Deuteronomy 7:2
2 band when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must cdevote them to complete destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
eYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 1 Samuel 15:9
9 fBut Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves ▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction. Psalms 106:34-35
34 They did not hdestroy the peoples,ias the Lord commanded them,
35but they jmixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
Jeremiah 48:10
10 k“Cursed is he who does lthe work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
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