Deuteronomy 7:2

Modern English Version

and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you strike them down, then you must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave him one-tenth of everything.

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not from the Israelites. Instead they were a remnant of the Amorites. Although the Israelites had made a pact with them, Saul attempted to destroy them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities which my father took from your father, and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria.” Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this covenant.” So he made a covenant with him and sent him away.

Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to sever relations with all the women and their children according to the counsel of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. May this be done in accordance with the law.

Psalm 106:34

They did not destroy the peoples, as the Lord had commanded them,

Exodus 22:20

He who sacrifices to any god other than the Lord alone shall be utterly destroyed.

Numbers 21:2

Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

Numbers 31:17

So now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him.

Numbers 33:52

then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images, and destroy all their high places,

Deuteronomy 13:8

you shall not consent to him or listen to him, neither should your eye pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him,

Deuteronomy 13:9

but you must surely kill him. Your hand must be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards, the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 19:13

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

Deuteronomy 2:33

Then the Lord our God delivered him over to us, and we struck him down with his sons and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2:34

We took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, the women, and the sons of every city. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 23:14

For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore, your camp must be holy, so that He does not see any indecent thing among you, and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 25:12

then you must cut off her hand. You must not pity her.

Deuteronomy 3:3

So the Lord our God delivered Og, the king of Bashan, with all his people, into our hands also, and we struck him down until there was no survivor remaining.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will give them up before you, so that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 33:27

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath you are the everlasting arms; He will drive out the enemy before you, and will say, “Destroy them.”

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Understand therefore today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and shall bring them down before you, so that you drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has spoken to you.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua took Makkedah that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He destroyed it and all life within it. He did not leave any survivors. He did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord gave Libnah and its king into the hand of Israel, and they struck all who lived in it with the edge of the sword. There were no survivors left. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:32

The Lord gave Lachish into the hand of Israel. They captured it on the second day and struck all who lived in it with the edge of the sword, just as they had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua attacked the whole land: the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the mountain slopes, and all their kings. No survivor was left. He destroyed all who breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 10:42

Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign because the Lord God of Israel waged war for Israel.

Joshua 11:8

The Lord gave them into the hand of Israel. They struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivor remained.

Joshua 2:14

The men said to her, “Our lives for yours; if you do not report us, then when the Lord gives us the land, we will act faithfully and kindly with you.”

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that He swore to their fathers. Not a man among their enemies stood before them, and the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

Joshua 8:24

When Israel completed killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they had pursued them, and when all of them had finally fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “It was told to your slaves that the Lord your God commanded Moses His servant 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, and we did this thing.

Joshua 9:7

Then the Israelites said to these Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us, so how could we make a pact with you?”

Judges 1:24

The spies saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, “Please show us the entrance to the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

Judges 1:4

Then Judah went up, and the Lord gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands. They struck down ten thousand men in Bezek.

Judges 2:2

but you must not make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you must tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?