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Exodus 23:32

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You must not make an agreement with those people or with their gods.

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Instead, they mixed with the other nations and learned their customs.

“Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth.

“You must not bow down to their gods or worship them. You must not live the way those people live. You must destroy their idols, breaking into pieces the stone pillars they use in worship.

Be careful that you don’t make an agreement with the people who live in the land where you are going, because it will bring you trouble.

“Be careful that you don’t make an agreement with the people who live in that land. When they worship their gods, they will invite you to join them. Then you will eat their sacrifices.

How can Christ and Belial, the devil, have any agreement? What can a believer have together with a nonbeliever?

Otherwise, they will teach you what they do for their gods, and if you do these hateful things, you will sin against the Lord your God.

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

The Lord your God will bring you into the land that you are entering and that you will have as your own. As you go in, he will force out these nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—seven nations that are stronger than you.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?




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