Deuteronomy 7:2 - Tree of Life Version

² and Adonai your God gives them over to you and you strike them down, then you are to utterly destroy them. You are to make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 shew mercy unto them:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you smite them, then you must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, or show mercy to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

Common English Bible

² once the LORD your God lays them before you, you must strike them down, placing them under the ban. Don’t make any covenants with them, and don’t be merciful to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And 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 7:2 Cross References

Genesis 14:20

and blessed be El Elyon, Who gave over your enemies Into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of Bnei-Yisrael but a remnant of the Amorites; however, Bnei-Yisrael had sworn a covenant with them. Yet Saul had tried to eradicate them in his zeal for Bnei-Yisrael and Judah.)

1 Kings 20:34

Then he said to him, “The cities which my father took from your father I will give back, and you may set up markets for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “Then I will let you go with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

Ezra 10:3

So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all these women and their offspring, in accordance with the counsel of my lord and of those who fear the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Torah.

Psalm 106:34

They did not destroy the peoples, as Adonai had commanded them.

Exodus 22:20

“You must not exploit or oppress an outsider, for you were outsiders in the land of Egypt.

Numbers 21:2

Then Israel vowed to Adonai and stated, “If you deliver this people into our hand, we will put their cities under the ban of destruction!”

Numbers 31:17

So now, kill all the boys and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man.

Numbers 33:52

You must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. You must destroy all their idols and cast images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 13:8

from among the gods of the peoples around you, near you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other.

Deuteronomy 13:9

You are not to give in or listen to him, your eye is not to pity him, and you are not to spare or conceal him.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye should not pity him, but you must purge the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 2:33

Adonai our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down along with his sons and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2:34

We captured all his cities at that time, and utterly put under a ban of judgment every city—men, women and children. We left no survivor.

Deuteronomy 23:14

You are to have a shovel for yourself among your weapons. Now when you sit down outside, you are to dig with it and turn and cover up what comes out of you.

Deuteronomy 25:12

Then you are to cut off her hand—your eye will show no pity.

Deuteronomy 3:3

“So Adonai our God also handed over King Og of the Bashan and all his people, and we struck him down until no survivor was left.

Deuteronomy 31:5

Adonai will give them over to you, and you are to do to them according to all the mitzvot that I commanded you.

Deuteronomy 33:27

A refuge is the ancient God, and underneath are everlasting arms. He drove out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

Deuteronomy 7:16

“You will devour all the peoples Adonai your God gives over to you. Your eye is not to pity them. You are not to serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 9:3

But you will know today that Adonai your God is the One who is crossing over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before you, so that you may drive them out and make them perish quickly, as Adonai has promised you.

Joshua 10:28

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword, putting it and every single soul in it under a ban of destruction, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

Adonai also gave it with its king into the hand of Israel. So he struck it and every single soul in it with the edge of the sword, leaving no survivors in it. So he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:32

Adonai delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, so he captured it on the second day, and struck it and every single soul in it with the edge of the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua conquered the entire country—the hill country, the Negev, the lowland and the slopes—with all their kings. He left no survivors, but he put everything that breathed under the ban, just as Adonai God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 10:42

Thus Joshua captured all those kings and their lands at a single stroke, because Adonai God of Israel fought for Israel.

Joshua 11:8

Then Adonai gave them into the hand of Israel, so they defeated them and chased them as far as Great Zidon and Misrephoth-maim, and up to the Valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them down until they left them no survivors.

Joshua 2:14

The men said to her: “Our life for yours, if you don’t report this business of ours. Then it will be when Adonai gives us the land that we will deal kindly and loyally with you.”

Joshua 21:44

Then Adonai gave them rest on all sides, just as He had sworn to their fathers. Not one man of all their enemies withstood them, for Adonai gave all their enemies into their hand.

Joshua 8:24

After Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 9:24

So they answered Joshua and said: “It was because your servants were clearly told that Adonai your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. So we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and so we did this.

Joshua 9:7

Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites: “Perhaps you are living among us. How then should we make a covenant with you?”

Judges 1:24

Now the scouts saw a man coming out from the city and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city and we will deal kindly with you.”

Judges 1:4

When Judah went up, Adonai delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; they struck down 10,000 of them at Bezek.

Judges 2:2

Now as for you, you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You must break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?