Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, New Living Translation Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the LORD had commanded them. English Standard Version They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, Berean Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, King James Bible They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: New King James Version They did not destroy the peoples, Concerning whom the LORD had commanded them, New American Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD had commanded them, NASB 1995 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them, NASB 1977 They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them, Legacy Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples, As Yahweh commanded them, Amplified Bible They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan], As the LORD commanded them, Christian Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them Holman Christian Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them American Standard Version They did not destroy the peoples, As Jehovah commanded them, Contemporary English Version Our LORD, they disobeyed you by refusing to destroy the nations. English Revised Version They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them; GOD'S WORD® Translation They did not destroy the people as the LORD had told them. Good News Translation They did not kill the heathen, as the LORD had commanded them to do, International Standard Version They never destroyed the people, as the LORD had commanded them. Majority Standard Bible They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, NET Bible They did not destroy the nations, as the LORD had commanded them to do. New Heart English Bible They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, Webster's Bible Translation They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: World English Bible They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey have not destroyed the peoples, "" As YHWH had commanded to them, Young's Literal Translation They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them, Smith's Literal Translation They did not destroy the peoples which Jehovah said to them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them. Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, New Revised Standard Version They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd they did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they did not destroy the nations of which LORD JEHOVAH had spoken to them. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They did not destroy the peoples, As the LORD commanded them; Brenton Septuagint Translation They destroyed not the nations which the Lord told them to destroy; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good…33For they rebelled against His Spirit, and Moses spoke rashly with his lips. 34They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them, 35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.… Cross References Judges 2:1-3 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you, / and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done? / So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.” Deuteronomy 7:1-2 When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— / and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Numbers 33:52-56 you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places. / You are to take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. / And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers. ... Joshua 23:12-13 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, / know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. Judges 1:27-33 At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. / When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely. / Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer. ... Exodus 23:32-33 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. / They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.” Deuteronomy 20:16-18 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. / For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you, / so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God. 1 Samuel 15:18-19 and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’ / So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?” 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem. / Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. / But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. Nehemiah 9:26-27 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. / So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies. Jeremiah 18:15 Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway. Ezekiel 20:18-21 In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols. / I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. / Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’ ... Acts 13:18-19 He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness. / And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance. Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Treasury of Scripture They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them: did not Joshua 15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day. Joshua 16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute. Joshua 17:12-16 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land… concerning Numbers 33:52,55,56 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places: … Deuteronomy 7:2,16,23,24 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: … Deuteronomy 20:16,17 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: … Jump to Previous Commanded Destroy Destroyed End Nations PeoplesJump to Next Commanded Destroy Destroyed End Nations PeoplesPsalm 106 1. The psalmist exhorts to praise God4. He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers 7. The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy 47. He concludes with prayer and praise They did not destroy This phrase highlights a significant act of disobedience by the Israelites. The Hebrew root for "destroy" is "שָׁמַד" (shamad), which means to annihilate or exterminate. In the context of ancient Israel, this command was not merely about physical destruction but about removing the influence of pagan cultures and practices that could lead the Israelites away from their covenant with God. Historically, this failure to fully obey God's command led to the Israelites being influenced by the very cultures they were meant to eradicate, resulting in spiritual and moral decline. the peoples as the LORD had commanded them Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They did notלֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no destroy הִ֭שְׁמִידוּ (hiš·mî·ḏū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 8045: To be exterminated or destroyed the peoples הָֽעַמִּ֑ים (hā·‘am·mîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock as אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH had commanded אָמַ֖ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say them, לָהֶֽם׃ (lā·hem) Preposition-l | Pronoun - third person masculine plural Strong's 1992: They Links Psalm 106:34 NIVPsalm 106:34 NLT Psalm 106:34 ESV Psalm 106:34 NASB Psalm 106:34 KJV Psalm 106:34 BibleApps.com Psalm 106:34 Biblia Paralela Psalm 106:34 Chinese Bible Psalm 106:34 French Bible Psalm 106:34 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 106:34 They didn't destroy the peoples as Yahweh (Psalm Ps Psa.) |