Deuteronomy 7:2

The English Standar Version

and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.[1] You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!"And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

2 Samuel 21:2

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

1 Kings 20:34

And Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

Ezra 10:3

Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.

Psalm 106:34

They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

Exodus 22:20

"Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.[6]

Numbers 21:2

And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction."[1]

Numbers 31:17

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Numbers 33:52

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 13:8

you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.

Deuteronomy 13:9

But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood[2] from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2:34

And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction[2] every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 23:14

Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 25:12

then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

Deuteronomy 3:3

So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.

Deuteronomy 31:5

And the LORD will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 33:27

The eternal God is your dwelling place,[12] and underneath are the everlasting arms.[13] And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.

Joshua 10:28

As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:32

And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded.

Joshua 10:42

And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

Joshua 11:8

And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.

Joshua 2:14

And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you."

Joshua 21:44

And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands.

Joshua 8:24

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

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, "Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you -- so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.

Joshua 9:7

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?"

Judges 1:24

And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."

Judges 1:4

Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.

Judges 2:2

and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?