ISRAEL TO DESTROY IDOLATROUS NATIONS

7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the landa you are entering to possess,b and he drives out many nations before you—the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nationsc more numerous and powerful than youd—2 and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroye them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.f 3 You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,g 4 because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods.h Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you,i and he will swiftly destroy you. 5 Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,j and burn their carved images.