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 must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash
“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone i
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive a
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruct
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains
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
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods,
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, o
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates.
They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Jos
So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or sw
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your mids