Numbers 33:52

you must force all the people who live there to leave. Destroy all their carved statues and all their idols made of metal. Wreck all the places where they worship their idols.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

51“Tell this to the Israeli people: When you cross the Jordan River and enter the Canaan region,

53Take their land from them and start to live there, because I have given their land to you for you to own.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:31I will cause the borders of your land to extend from the ◄Red Sea/Gulf of Aqaba► in the southeast to the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest, and from the Sinai Desert in the southwest to the Euphrates River in the northeast of the country. I will enable you [MTY] to expel the people who live there, so that you will expel them as you occupy more of the country.

Exodus 34:13You must tear down their altars, destroy their sacred pillars, and cut down the poles that they use to worship their female goddess Asherah.

Deuteronomy 7:2When Yahweh our God enables you to defeat [DOU] them, you must kill all of them. You must not make ◄an alliance/a peace treaty► with any of them. You must not act mercifully toward them.

Deuteronomy 12:2You must destroy all the places where the people-groups that you will expel worship their gods, on the tops of mountains and hills and under big green trees.

Deuteronomy 20:16“But in the cities that are in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, you must kill all the people and all the animals [LIT].

Joshua 9:7The Israeli leaders said to those men from Gilead who were from the Hiv people-group, “ We do not know if you truly live far from us. If you live near us, we cannot [RHQ] make a peace agreement with you, because God has commanded us to get rid of the people that are living near us.”

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 →

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