You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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
From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with y
you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruct
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your mids
They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
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 w
‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who
And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your
Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed a
know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for yo
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,