Leviticus 27:28-29

28But ano devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord. 29 bNo one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction
That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 21:2-3

2 dAnd Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”
That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 3
3And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called fHormah.
 Hormah means destruction


Deuteronomy 7:2

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.

Deuteronomy 7:26

26And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction
That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, mfor it is devoted to destruction.

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

16But nin the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17but oyou 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,
18that qthey may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you rsin against the Lord your God.

Joshua 7:11

11Israel has sinned; they have stransgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the tdevoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.

Joshua 8:25-26

25And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai. 26But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he ustretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.
That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

Joshua 9:24

24They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had wcommanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so xwe feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.
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