Exodus 23:32-33
32 aYou 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, bit will surely be a snare to you.”Numbers 33:52
52then cyou shall drive out dall the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their efigured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.Deuteronomy 7:2
2 fand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must gdevote them to complete destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
iYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. Judges 1:21
21But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, jso the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.Judges 1:27
Failure to Complete the Conquest
27 kManasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.Judges 1:29-31
29 lAnd Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.30Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of mNahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.
31 nAsher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,
Judges 1:33
33Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of oBeth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
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