Deuteronomy 7:2
When the Lord your God has handed them over to you to defeat them, then you must set them apart for destruction. Don't make any peace treaty with them and don't show them any mercy.
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Exodus 22:20Anyone who sacrifices to any other god than the Lord must be set apart and executed.
Exodus 34:12Make sure you don't agree to a peace treaty with the people living in the land where you are going. Otherwise they will become a trap for you.
Numbers 21:2So Israel made a solemn promise to the Lord: “If you hand these people over to us, we pledge to completely destroy their towns.”
Deuteronomy 3:3So the Lord our God handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, and his whole army as well. We killed them and left no survivors.
Deuteronomy 9:3But you should realize that today the Lord your God is going across ahead of you. He is like a consuming fire; he will destroy them and defeat them ahead of you. You will drive them out and quickly wipe them out, just as the Lord promised you.
Deuteronomy 13:9No, you absolutely must kill them! You start killing them, and then have everyone else help.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 7:2-12
A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; 2 And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto… Read the whole commentary →