A Chosen People
1 "When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to Deut. 6:10possess, and has cast out many Gen. 15:19–21nations before you, Ex. 33:2the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God delivers Num. 31:17; Deut. 20:16–18them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. Ex. 23:32, 33; Josh. 2:14You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. 3 Ex. 34:15, 16; Josh. 23:12; 1 Kin. 11:2; Ezra 9:2Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.