Numbers 33:52
Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
53Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.
Cross References
Exodus 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
Exodus 34:13But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their groves:
Deuteronomy 7:2And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:
Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree:
Deuteronomy 20:16But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:
Joshua 9:7Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league 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 →