Deuteronomy 7:2
Good News Translation
When the LORD your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
the LORD will force them out of the land. Then you must destroy them without mercy. Don't make any peace treaties with them,

New American Bible
and when the LORD, your God, gives them over to you and you defeat them, you shall put them under the ban. Make no covenant with them and do not be gracious to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

deliver

Deuteronomy 7:23,24 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them in thy sight: and shall slay them until they be utterly destroyed. . . .

Deuteronomy 3:3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,

Deuteronomy 23:14 That which thou art eased of: (for the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies to thee:) and let thy camp be holy, and let no uncleanness appear therein, lest he go away from thee.

Genesis 14:20 And blessed be the most high God, by whose protection, the enemies are in thy hands. And he gave him the tithes of all.

Joshua 10:24,25,30,32,42 And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and put their feet upon the necks of them lying under them, . . .

Joshua 21:44 And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of their enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their dominion.

Judges 1:4 And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand men.

utterly

Deuteronomy 20:16,17 But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live: . . .

Leviticus 27:28,29 Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord. . . .

Numbers 33:52 Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Joshua 6:17-25 And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent. . . .

Joshua 8:24 So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight to the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city.

Joshua 9:24 They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we took this counsel.

Joshua 10:28,40 The same day Joshua took Maceda, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he left not in it the least remains. And he did to the king of Maceda, as he had done to the king of Jericho. . . .

Joshua 11:11,12 And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with fire. . . .

make no

Deuteronomy 20:10,11 If at any time thou come to fight against a city, thou shalt first offer it peace. . . .

Exodus 23:32,33 Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods. . . .

Exodus 34:12-16 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: . . .

Joshua 2:14 They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.

Joshua 9:18-21 And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had sworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common people murmured against the princes. . . .

Judges 1:24 They saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him: Shew us the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.

Judges 2:2 On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

2 Samuel 21:2 Then the king, calling for the Gabaonites, said to them: (Now the Gabaonites were not of the children of Israel, but the remains of the Amorrhites: and the children of Israel had sworn to them, and Saul sought to slay them out of zeal, as it were for the children of Israel and Juda:)

Context
Casting out the Nations
1When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou: 2And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:…
Cross References
Exodus 23:32
Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

Numbers 31:17
Therefore kill all that are of the male sex, even of the children: and put to death the women, that have carnally known men.

Deuteronomy 2:33
And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.

Deuteronomy 2:34
And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Deuteronomy 7:16
Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

Deuteronomy 13:8
Consent not to him, hear him not, neither let thy eye spare him to pity and conceal him,

Deuteronomy 19:13
Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Deuteronomy 25:12
Thou shalt cut off her hand, neither shalt thou be moved with any pity in her regard.

Deuteronomy 31:5
Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 33:27
His dwelling is above, and underneath are the everlasting arms: he shall cast out the enemy from before thee, and shall say: Be thou brought to nought.

Joshua 9:7
Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.

Joshua 11:11
And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with fire.

Joshua 11:12
And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities round about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded him.

Judges 2:2
On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

Ezra 10:3
Let us make a covenant with the Lord our God, to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the will of the Lord, and of them that fear the commandment of the Lord our God: let it be done according to the law.

Psalm 106:34
They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

Deuteronomy 7:1
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