Numbers 33:52
destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Break their monuments, and shatter their statues, and lay waste to every exalted thing,
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53cleansing the land and living in it. For I have given it you as a possession,
Cross References
Exodus 23:31Then I will set your limits to be from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Palestinians, and from the desert all the way to the river. I will deliver into your hands the inhabitants of the land, and I will cast them out from your sight.
Exodus 34:13But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.
Deuteronomy 7:2and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.
Deuteronomy 12:2Overturn all the places where the nations, which you will possess, worshipped their gods on lofty mountains, and on hills, and under every leafy tree.
Deuteronomy 20:16But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.
Joshua 9:7“Perhaps instead, you live in the land which ought to be ours by lot, and we would be unable to form a pact with you.”
Matthew Henry on Numbers 33:51-56
The Canaanites Doomed. ( b. c. 1452.) 50 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 51 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: 53 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given… Read the whole commentary →