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Deuteronomy 7:1–2

Driving Out the Nations

7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possessb and drives out before you many nationsc—the Hittites,d Girgashites,e Amorites,f Canaanites, Perizzites,g Hivitesh and Jebusites,i seven nations larger and stronger than you—2 and when the Lord your God has deliveredj them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroyk them totally.a l Make no treatym with them, and show them no mercy.n

b	See Lev 14:34; See Dt 4:38
c	Dt 20:16–18; 31:3
d	Ge 15:20
e	See Ge 10:16
f	See Dt 1:7
g	Ge 13:7
h	See Ge 10:17
i	Jos 3:10
j	See Dt 2:33
k	See Dt 2:34
a	The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.
l	Nu 31:17; Dt 33:27; Jos 11:11
m	See Ex 23:32
n	ver 16; Dt 13:8; 19:13; 25:12