Numbers 33:52
then you must drive out all the land's inhabitants before you. You must destroy all their carved figures. You must destroy all their cast figures and demolish all their high places.
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53You must take possession of the land and settle in it, because I have given you the land to possess.
Cross References
Exodus 23:31I will fix your borders from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. I will give you victory over the land's inhabitants. You will drive them out before yourselves.
Exodus 34:13Instead, you must break down their altars, smash their stone pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
Deuteronomy 7:2It 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.
Deuteronomy 12:2You will surely destroy all the places where the nations that you will dispossess worshiped their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
Deuteronomy 20:16In the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must save alive nothing that breathes.
Joshua 9:7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. How can we make a covenant 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 →