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Deuteronomy 23:14
For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or he will turn away from you.
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Exodus 23:32-33
You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.”
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Leviticus 27:28-29
“ Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the LORD from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the LORD.No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.
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Deuteronomy 20:16-17
However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.You must completely destroy them— the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite— as the LORD your God has commanded you,
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Judges 2:2
You are not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?
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Joshua 2:14
The men answered her,“ We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the LORD gives us the land.”
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Judges 1:24
The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him,“ Please show us how to get into town, and we will show you kindness.”
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Joshua 10:40
So Joshua conquered the whole region— the hill country, the Negev, the Judean foothills, and the slopes— with all their kings, leaving no survivors. He completely destroyed every living being, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
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Deuteronomy 3:3
So the LORD our God also handed over King Og of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.
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Joshua 9:18-21
But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then the whole community grumbled against the leaders.All the leaders answered them,“ We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.This is how we will treat them: we will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”They also said,“ Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.
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Joshua 10:30
The LORD also handed it and its king over to Israel. He struck it down, putting everyone in it to the sword, and left no survivors in it. He treated Libnah’s king as he had the king of Jericho.
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Joshua 10:28
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, including its king. He completely destroyed it and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he treated the king of Makkedah as he had the king of Jericho.
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Deuteronomy 13:8
do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
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Joshua 6:17-25
But the city and everything in it are set apart to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and make trouble for it.For all the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, are dedicated to the LORD and must go into the LORD’s treasury.”So the troops shouted, and the ram’s horns sounded. When they heard the blast of the ram’s horn, the troops gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The troops advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword— every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.Joshua said to the two men who had scouted the land,“ Go to the prostitute’s house and bring the woman out of there, and all who are with her, just as you swore to her.”So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.They burned the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she still lives in Israel today.
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Numbers 33:52
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.
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Joshua 8:24
When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.
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Exodus 34:12-16
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.Because the LORD is jealous for his reputation, you are never to bow down to another god. He is a jealous God.“ Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
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Deuteronomy 20:10-11
“ When you approach a city to fight against it, make an offer of peace.If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.
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Judges 1:4
When Judah attacked, the LORD handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They struck down ten thousand men in Bezek.
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Deuteronomy 7:23-24
The LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.
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Joshua 9:24
The Gibeonites answered him,“ It was clearly communicated to your servants 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 before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.
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Joshua 10:24-25
When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him,“ Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.Joshua said to them,“ Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight.”
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Joshua 10:32
The LORD handed Lachish over to Israel, and Joshua captured it on the second day. He struck it down, putting everyone in it to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.
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Joshua 21:44
The LORD gave them rest on every side according to all he had sworn to their ancestors. None of their enemies were able to stand against them, for the LORD handed over all their enemies to them.
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Joshua 11:11-12
They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned Hazor.Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and struck them down with the sword. He completely destroyed them, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
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Genesis 14:20
and blessed be God Most High who has handed over your enemies to you. And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
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2 Samuel 21 2
The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.
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Joshua 10:42
Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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Exodus 22:20
“ Whoever sacrifices to any gods, except the LORD alone, is to be set apart for destruction.