Deuteronomy 7:2

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.

Cross References (29)

  • Judges 2:2 (7)

    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

  • Exodus 23:32–33 (7)

    You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Deuteronomy 20:16–17 (4)

    However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive a

  • Joshua 2:14 (3)

    “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulnes

  • Joshua 10:30 (3)

    And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword,

  • Leviticus 27:28–29 (3)

    Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold o

  • Joshua 11:11–12 (3)

    The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Jos

  • Deuteronomy 23:14 (3)

    For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy,

  • Joshua 10:24–25 (2)

    When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had acc

  • Joshua 21:44 (2)

    And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand agai

  • Joshua 10:42 (2)

    And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campai

  • Joshua 6:17–25 (2)

    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those w

  • Judges 1:24 (2)

    and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we

  • Joshua 9:24 (2)

    The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give

  • Joshua 9:18–21 (2)

    But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, t

  • Joshua 10:40 (2)

    So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their

  • Exodus 34:12–16 (2)

    Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your mids

  • Deuteronomy 3:3 (2)

    So the LORD our God also delivered Og king of Bashan and his whole army into our hands. We struck them down until no sur

  • Numbers 33:52 (2)

    you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demol

  • Deuteronomy 20:10–11 (2)

    When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.

  • Joshua 8:24 (2)

    When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every la

  • Genesis 14:20 (2)

    and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of eve

  • 2 Samuel 21:2 (2)

    At this, David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not Israelites, but a remnant of the

  • Judges 1:4 (2)

    When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousan

  • Deuteronomy 13:8 (2)

    you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

  • Deuteronomy 7:23–24 (2)

    But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.

  • Joshua 10:32 (2)

    And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and Joshua captured it on the second day. He put all the people

  • Joshua 10:28 (2)

    On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in

  • Exodus 22:20 (1)

    If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.