Deuteronomy 7:2

New Century Version

The Lord your God will hand these nations over to you, and when you defeat them, you must destroy them completely. Do not make a peace treaty with them or show them any mercy.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

And we praise God Most High, who has helped you to defeat your enemies.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had brought back from the battle.

2 Samuel 21:2

(Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites; they were a group of Amorites who were left alive. The Israelites had promised not to hurt the Gibeonites, but Saul had tried to kill them, because he was eager to help the people of Israel and Judah.) King David called the Gibeonites together and spoke to them.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-Hadad said to him, “Ahab, I will give you back the cities my father took from your father. And you may put shops in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “If you agree to this, I will allow you to go free.” So the two kings made a peace agreement. Then Ahab let Ben-Hadad go free.

Ezra 10:3

Now let us make an agreement before our God. We will send away all these women and their children as you and those who respect the commands of our God advise. Let it be done to obey God’s Teachings.

Psalm 106:34

The people did not destroy the other nations as the Lord had told them to do.

Exodus 22:20

“Destroy completely any person who makes a sacrifice to any god except the Lord.

Numbers 21:2

Then the Israelites made this promise to the Lord: “If you will help us defeat these people, we will completely destroy their cities.”

Numbers 31:17

Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations.

Numbers 33:52

force out all the people who live there. Destroy all of their carved statues and metal idols. Wreck all of their places of worship.

Deuteronomy 13:8

Do not give in to such people. Do not listen or feel sorry for them, and do not let them go free or protect them.

Deuteronomy 13:9

You must put them to death. You must be the first one to start to kill them, and then everyone else must join in.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Show no mercy. You must remove from Israel the guilt of murdering innocent people so that things will go well for you.

Deuteronomy 2:33

but the Lord our God gave Sihon to us. We defeated him, his sons, and all his army.

Deuteronomy 2:34

We captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed them, as well as the men, women, and children. We left no one alive.

Deuteronomy 23:14

The Lord your God moves around through your camp to protect you and to defeat your enemies for you, so the camp must be holy. He must not see anything unclean among you so that he will not leave you.

Deuteronomy 25:12

you must cut off her hand. Show her no mercy.

Deuteronomy 3:3

So the Lord our God gave us Og king of Bashan and all his army; we defeated them and left no one alive.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will give those nations to you; do to them everything I told you.

Deuteronomy 33:27

The everlasting God is your place of safety, and his arms will hold you up forever. He will force your enemy out ahead of you, saying, ‘Destroy the enemy!’

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people the Lord your God hands over to you. Do not feel sorry for them, and do not worship their gods, or they will trap you.

Deuteronomy 9:3

But today remember that the Lord your God goes in before you to destroy them like a fire that burns things up. He will defeat them ahead of you, and you will force them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has said.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. He killed the king and completely destroyed all the people in that city as an offering to the Lord; no one was left alive. He did the same thing to the king of Makkedah that he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord handed over the city and its king. They killed every person in the city; no one was left alive. And they did the same thing to that king that they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:32

The Lord handed over Lachish on the second day. The Israelites killed everyone in that city just as they had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of these areas: the mountains, southern Canaan, the western hills, and the slopes. The Lord, the God of Israel, had told Joshua to completely destroy all the people as an offering to the Lord, so he left no one alive in those places.

Joshua 10:42

He captured all these cities and their kings on one trip, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

Joshua 11:8

The Lord handed them over to Israel. They chased them to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Valley of Mizpah in the east. Israel fought until none of the enemy was left alive.

Joshua 2:14

The men agreed and said, “It will be our lives for your lives if you don’t tell anyone what we are doing. When the Lord gives us the land, we will be kind and true to you.”

Joshua 21:44

The Lord gave them peace on all sides, as he had promised their ancestors. None of their enemies defeated them; the Lord handed all their enemies over to them.

Joshua 8:24

During the fighting the army of Israel chased the men of Ai into the fields and desert and killed all of them. Then they went back to Ai and killed everyone there.

Joshua 9:24

The Gibeonites answered Joshua, “We lied to you because we were afraid you would kill us. We heard that the Lord your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all of this land and to kill all the people who lived in it. That is why we did this.

Joshua 9:7

The Israelites said to these Hivites, “Maybe you live near us. How can we make a peace agreement with you?”

Judges 1:24

The spies saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, “Show us a way into the city, and we will be kind to you.”

Judges 1:4

When Judah attacked, the Lord handed over the Canaanites and the Perizzites to them, and they defeated ten thousand men at the city of Bezek.

Judges 2:2

But you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You must destroy their altars.’ But you did not obey me. How could you do this?