Deuteronomy 7:2
It is Yahweh your God who gives them over to you when you defeat them, and then you must completely destroy them. You will make no covenant with them, and show them no mercy.
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Exodus 22:20Whoever sacrifices to any god except to Yahweh must be completely destroyed.
Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a trap among you.
Numbers 21:2Israel vowed to Yahweh and said, “If you give us victory over these people, then we will completely destroy their cities.”
Deuteronomy 3:3So Yahweh our God also gave us victory over Og the king of Bashan, and all his people were put under our control. We struck them down until not one of his people remained.
Deuteronomy 9:3Know therefore today that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you like a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so will you drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has said to you.
Deuteronomy 13:9Instead, you will surely kill him; your hand will be the first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
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 →