I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

Then Israel made a vow to the Lord, “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities.”

One who comes from Jacob will rule;
he will destroy the city’s survivors.

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites because he was zealous among them with My zeal, so that I did not destroy the Israelites in My zeal.

If you turn back from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.”

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.