Deuteronomy 7:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Deliver

Judges 1:4

Utterly

Make no

General references

Deuteronomy 31:4

Bible References

Deliver

The Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

So the Lord our God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.

and I give praise to God Most High
who has handed over your enemies to you.

And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

When they had brought the kings to him, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the military commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

The Lord gave them rest on every side according to all He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies were able to stand against them, for the Lord handed over all their enemies to them.

When Judah attacked, the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They struck down 10,000 men in Bezek.

Utterly

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.

When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.

The Gibeonites answered him, “It was clearly communicated to your servants that the Lord your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, including its king. He completely destroyed it and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he treated the king of Makkedah as he had the king of Jericho.

They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned down Hazor.

Make no

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

You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.

The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”

But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. Then the whole community grumbled against the leaders.

The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Please show us how to get into town, and we will treat you well.”

You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars.

But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

The Gibeonites were not Israelites but rather a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had taken an oath concerning them, but Saul had tried to kill them in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. So David summoned the Gibeonites and spoke to them.

General references

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you to settle in,

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will drive out nations greater and stronger than you are.

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

The Lord will deal with them as He did Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when He destroyed them.