Deuteronomy 7:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:34

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

Psalm 106:36

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Exodus 23:33

They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Jeremiah 21:7

Afterward, says the Lord, I will give King Zedekiah of Judah and his servants and the people in this city—those who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine—into the hands of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword; he shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Deuteronomy 13:8

you must not yield to or heed any such persons. Show them no pity or compassion, and do not shield them.

Deuteronomy 13:9

But you shall surely kill them; your own hand shall be first against them to execute them and afterward the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 25:12

you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Judges 2:12

and they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and bowed down to them, and they provoked the Lord to anger.

Judges 2:3

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his town, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.