Deuteronomy 7:2

2 ^hand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ⁱdevote them to complete destruction.¹ ^jYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

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Deuteronomy 20:17
but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,

Exodus 22:20
“Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

Leviticus 27:29
No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 21:2–3
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.” And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.

Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

Exodus 34:12
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.

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?

Deuteronomy 20:10
“When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.

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 9:18
But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.

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.”

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