Lev 18:24, Deu 2:21, Jos 24:8, 2Ki 17:8-11 | ESV | STEP | Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things , for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean ,

Leviticus 18:24

24 ^a“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, ^bfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,

Deuteronomy 2:21

21 ^ca people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites, ^{▼▼Hebrew them} and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,

Joshua 24:8

8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. ^eThey fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.

2 Kings 17:8-11

8 ^fand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^gand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ^hfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ⁱpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger,