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

Jehovah your God will deliver them over to you. He will throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

So Jehovah our God also handed King Og of Bashan and all his army over to us. We defeated him and left no survivors.

Jehovah your God walks in the middle of your camp. He is there to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you. Therefore your camp must be holy. He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand! Abram gave him one tenth of everything.

When they brought out the kings to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him: Come near, put your feet on the back of the necks of (humiliate) (abase) these kings. They came near, and put their feet upon their necks.

Jehovah granted them peace throughout the land. This is just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of all their enemies was able to stand against them, because Jehovah gave the Israelites the victory over all their enemies.

Judah went up and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Utterly

Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property.

However, everything dedicated to Jehovah for destruction, a person, an animal, or a field that belongs to you, must not be sold or bought back. Everything dedicated in that way is very holy. It belongs to Jehovah.

As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

The city and everything in it will be destroyed. It belongs to Jehovah. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in her house will live. Because she hid the messengers we sent.

When Israel finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai, and killed it with the edge of the sword.

They answered Joshua: For the reason that it was absolutely told to your servants, how Jehovah your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and destroy all the inhabitants of the land. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you. So we did this thing.

That day Joshua struck Makkedah with the edge of the sword. The king was destroyed all the people who lived there. He let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah the same as he did to the king of Jericho.

They killed all the people there with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them. None were left alive. He burned Hazor with fire.

Make no

When you go to attack a city, first give its people a chance to surrender.

Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going. It will become a snare in your midst.

The men answered her: Our life for yours, if you do not reveal our business. It will be, when Jehovah has given us the land. We will deal kindly and truly with you.

The children of Israel did not kill them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Jehovah God of Israel. The entire congregation murmured against the princes.

The spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him: Show us the entrance into the city, and we will show you mercy.

You will make no covenant with people of this land. You will throw down their altars. You have not obeyed my voice. Why have you done this?

The Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were left over from the Amorites. The Israelites swore to spare them. Saul, in his eagerness, tried to destroy them for Israel and Judah. The king called the Gibeonites.

General references

Speak to the Israelites and tell them: Once you are settled in the land I am giving you,

As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

Then Jehovah will drive out all these nations from before you. You will drive out nations greater and mightier than you.

Do not spare anyone's life in the cities of these nations Jehovah your God is giving you as your property.

Jehovah will destroy those people, just as he defeated Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and destroyed their country.