Israel to Destroy Idolatrous Nations
1 "When the Lord your God brings you into the land 7:1–5 Ex 23:23–26 you are entering to possess, 7:1 Dt 3:12 and he drives out many nations before you — the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations 7:1 Ac 13:19 more numerous and powerful than you 7:1 Ex 1:9 — 2 and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy 7:2 Dt 20:17 them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. 7:2 Pr 6:34; Is 9:17; 13:18; 27:11; 47:6; Jr 13:14; Hs 1:6,8; 2:4,233 You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 7:3 Jos 23:12–13; 1Kg 11:1–2; Ezr 9:12,144 because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. 7:4 Dt 13:6,13; 17:3; 28:36,64; 29:26; Jos 23:16; 24:16; 1Sm 26:19; Jr 16:13 Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, 7:4 Ex 22:24; Dt 11:17; 31:17; Jos 23:16 and he will swiftly destroy you.