A Chosen People
1 "When the ch. 31:3;Ps. 44:2,3Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, See Ex. 23:23the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations ch. 4:38;9:1;11:23more numerous and mightier than you, 2 ver. 23;ch. 23:14and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ch. 20:17;Ex. 22:20;Lev. 27:29;Num. 21:2,3devote them to complete destruction.7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)Ex. 23:32;34:12;Judg. 2:2;[ch. 20:10;Josh. 2:14;9:18;Judg. 1:24]You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 Ex. 34:16;Josh. 23:12,13;1 Kgs. 11:2;[Ezra 9:2]You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. ch. 6:15Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you [ch. 4:26;28:20]quickly.