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Joshua 11:14
The Israelites plundered all the spoils and cattle of these cities for themselves. But they struck down every person with the sword until they had annihilated them, leaving no one alive.
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Numbers 21:2-3
Then Israel made a vow to the Lord,“ If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities.”The Lord listened to Israel’s request, the Canaanites were defeated, and Israel completely destroyed them and their cities. So they named the place Hormah.
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Joshua 6:17-21
But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.For all the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, are dedicated to the Lord and must go into the Lord’s treasury.”So the people shouted, and the trumpets sounded. When they heard the blast of the trumpet, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The people advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword— every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.
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Deuteronomy 7:1-4
“ When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and He drives out many nations before you— the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.
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Numbers 33:52
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.
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Joshua 10:28
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and struck it down with the sword, including its king. He completely destroyed it and everyone in it, leaving no survivors. So he treated the king of Makkedah as he had the king of Jericho.
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Joshua 11:11-12
They struck down everyone in it with the sword, completely destroying them; he left no one alive. Then he burned down Hazor.Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and struck them down with the sword. He completely destroyed them, as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.
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Exodus 23:31-33
I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River. For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you.”
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Numbers 21:35
So they struck him, his sons, and his whole army until no one was left, and they took possession of his land.
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Joshua 9:24
The Gibeonites answered him,“ It was clearly communicated to your servants that the Lord your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.
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Joshua 10:40
So Joshua conquered the whole region— the hill country, the Negev, the Judean foothills, and the slopes— with all their kings, leaving no survivors. He completely destroyed every living being, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.
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Joshua 9:27
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers— as they are today— for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.
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Deuteronomy 7:16
You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.