Deuteronomy 7:1-5

A Chosen People

¹ "When the _e Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, _f the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations _g more numerous and mightier than yourselves, ² _h and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must _i devote them to complete destruction. _{1 j} You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. ³ _k 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. _l Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you _m quickly. ⁵ But thus shall you deal with them: _n you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their _n pillars and chop down their _n Asherim and _o burn their carved images with fire.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 31:3
   The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.
   Psalms 44:2 - 3
   You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
   
2. Cross References
   Exodus 23:23
   When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:38
   Driving out before you nations greater and mightier than yourselves, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
   Deuteronomy 9:1
   Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven.
   Deuteronomy 11:23
   Then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
   
4. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 7:23
   But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
   Deuteronomy 23:14
   Because the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
   
5. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 20:17
   But you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded.
   Exodus 22:20
   Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the Lord alone, shall be devoted to destruction.
   Leviticus 27:29
   No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
   Numbers 21:2 - 3
   And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 23:32
   You shall make no covenant with them and their ...
   Exodus 34:12
   Take care, lest you make a covenant with the in...
   Judges 2:2
   And you shall make no covenant with the inhabit...
   Deuteronomy 20:10
   When you draw near to a city to fight against i...
   Joshua 2:14
   And the men said to her, "Our life for yours ev...
   Joshua 9:18
   But the people of Israel did not attack them, b...
   Judges 1:24
   And the spies saw a man coming out of the city,...
   
7. Cross References
   Exodus 34:16
   And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
   Joshua 23:12 - 13
   For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you.
   1 Kings 11:2
   From the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.
   Ezra 9:2
   For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.
   
8. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 6:15
   For the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God - lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
   
9. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:26
   I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.
   Deuteronomy 28:20
   The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.
   
10. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
    
11. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
    
12. Cross References
    Exodus 34:13
    You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
    
13. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:25
    The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.