Deuteronomy 7:2

Good News Translation

When the Lord your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!” And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.

2 Samuel 21:2

The people of Gibeon were not Israelites; they were a small group of Amorites whom the Israelites had promised to protect, but Saul had tried to destroy them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

1 Kings 20:34

Benhadad said to him, “I will restore to you the towns my father took from your father, and you may set up a commercial center for yourself in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab replied, “On these terms, then, I will set you free.” He made a treaty with him and let him go.

Ezra 10:3

Now we must make a solemn promise to our God that we will send these women and their children away. We will do what you and the others who honor God's commands advise us to do. We will do what God's Law demands.

Psalm 106:34

They did not kill the heathen, as the Lord had commanded them to do,

Exodus 22:20

“Condemn to death anyone who offers sacrifices to any god except to me, the Lord.

Numbers 21:2

Then the Israelites made a vow to the Lord: “If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them.”

Numbers 31:17

So now kill every boy and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse,

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all their stone and metal idols and all their places of worship.

Deuteronomy 13:8

But do not let any of them persuade you; do not even listen to them. Show them no mercy or pity, and do not protect them.

Deuteronomy 13:9

Kill them! Be the first to stone them, and then let everyone else stone them too.

Deuteronomy 19:13

No mercy will be shown to you. Israel must rid itself of murderers, so that all will go well.

Deuteronomy 2:33

but the Lord our God put him in our power, and we killed him, his sons, and all his men.

Deuteronomy 2:34

At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 23:14

Keep your camp ritually clean, because the Lord your God is with you in your camp to protect you and to give you victory over your enemies. Do not do anything indecent that would cause the Lord to turn his back on you.

Deuteronomy 25:12

show her no mercy; cut off her hand.

Deuteronomy 3:3

“So the Lord also placed King Og and his people in our power, and we slaughtered them all.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will give you victory over them, and you are to treat them exactly as I have told you.

Deuteronomy 33:27

God has always been your defense; his eternal arms are your support. He drove out your enemies as you advanced, and told you to destroy them all.

Deuteronomy 7:16

Destroy every nation that the Lord your God places in your power, and do not show them any mercy. Do not worship their gods, for that would be fatal.

Deuteronomy 9:3

But now you will see for yourselves that the Lord your God will go ahead of you like a raging fire. He will defeat them as you advance, so that you will drive them out and destroy them quickly, as he promised.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua attacked and captured Makkedah and its king that day. He put everyone in the city to death; no one was left alive. He did to the king of Makkedah what he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord also gave the Israelites victory over this city and its king. They spared no one, but killed every person in it. They did to the king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:32

The Lord gave the Israelites victory over Lachish on the second day of the battle. Just as they had done at Libnah, they spared no one, but killed every person in the city.

Joshua 10:40

Joshua conquered the whole land. He defeated the kings of the hill country, the eastern slopes, and the western foothills, as well as those of the dry country in the south. He spared no one; everyone was put to death. This was what the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 10:42

Joshua conquered all these kings and their territory in one campaign because the Lord, Israel's God, was fighting for Israel.

Joshua 11:8

The Lord gave the Israelites victory over them; the Israelites attacked and pursued them as far north as Misrephoth Maim and Sidon, and as far east as the valley of Mizpah. The fight continued until none of the enemy was left alive.

Joshua 2:14

The men said to her, “May God take our lives if we don't do as we say! If you do not tell anyone what we have been doing, we promise you that when the Lord gives us this land, we will treat you well.”

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them peace throughout the land, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of all their enemies had been able to stand against them, because the Lord gave the Israelites the victory over all their enemies.

Joshua 8:24

The Israelites killed every one of the enemy in the barren country where they had chased them. Then they went back to Ai and killed everyone there.

Joshua 9:24

They answered, “We did it, sir, because we learned that it was really true that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to kill the people living in it as you advanced. We did it because we were terrified of you; we were in fear of our lives.

Joshua 9:7

But the Israelites said, “Why should we make a treaty with you? Maybe you live nearby.”

Judges 1:24

who saw a man leaving and said to him, “Show us how to get into the city, and we won't hurt you.”

Judges 1:4

and Judah went into battle together. The Lord gave them victory over the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 2:2

You must not make any covenant with the people who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.’ But you have not done what I told you. You have done just the opposite!