A Chosen People
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"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,
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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. j You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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k You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
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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.
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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.
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"For p you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be p a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
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but q it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping r the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, s the faithful God t who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
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and u repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. v He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
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w You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
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x "And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you y the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
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He will z love you, bless you, and multiply you. a He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
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You shall be blessed above all peoples. b There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
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And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil c diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
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And d you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. e Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be f a snare to you.
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"If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?'
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g you shall not be afraid of them but you shall h remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
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the great trials that your eyes saw, i the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
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Moreover, j the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
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You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is k in your midst, l a great and awesome God.
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m The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
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n But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
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And o he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall p make their name perish from under heaven. q No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
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The carved images of their gods r you shall burn with fire. You s shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be t ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.
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And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, u for it is devoted to destruction.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
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Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
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Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
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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.
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Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God,...
Deuteronomy 26:19
And that he will set you in praise and in fame ...
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will establish you as a people holy to...
Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and...
Exodus 22:31
You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you s...
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of...
Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of th...
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, ...
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
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Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God,...
Deuteronomy 26:19
And that he will set you in praise and in fame ...
Deuteronomy 28:9
The Lord will establish you as a people holy to...
Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and...
Exodus 22:31
You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you s...
Jeremiah 2:3
Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of...
Amos 3:2
You only have I known of all the families of th...
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, ...
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice...
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Deuteronomy 10:15
Yet the Lord set his heart in love on your fath...
Isaiah 43:4
Because you are precious in my eyes, and honore...
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and t...
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have ...
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out o...
Malachi 1:2
I have loved you," says the Lord. But you say, ...
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Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.'
Psalms 105:9 - 11
The covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac.
Luke 1:72 - 73
To show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.
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Isaiah 49:7
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and ...
1 Corinthians 1:9
God is faithful, by whom you were called into t...
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not com...
2 Corinthians 1:18
As surely as God is faithful, our word to you h...
1 Thessalonians 5:24
He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do...
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you...
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful - for ...
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope wit...
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just...
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Deuteronomy 5:10
But showing steadfast love to thousands of thos...
Exodus 20:6
But showing steadfast love to thousands of thos...
2 Chronicles 6:14
And said, "O Lord, God of Israel, there is no G...
Nehemiah 1:5
And I said, "O Lord God of heaven, the great an...
Nehemiah 9:32
Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty,...
Daniel 9:4
I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession...
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Job 34:11
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Isaiah 59:18
According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.
Nahum 1:2 - 3
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
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2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
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Deuteronomy 10:13
And to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good?
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Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16
And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 28:1 - 14
And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Leviticus 26:3 - 13
If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them.
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Psalms 105:8
He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations.
Luke 1:55
As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.
Luke 1:72
To show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant.
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John 14:21
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
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Deuteronomy 30:9
The Lord your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the Lord will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers.
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Exodus 23:26
None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
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Deuteronomy 28:27
The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
Deuteronomy 28:60
And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.
Exodus 9:14
For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exodus 15:26
Saying, "If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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Deuteronomy 13:8
You shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.
Deuteronomy 19:13
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.
Deuteronomy 19:21
Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 25:12
Then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
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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.
Deuteronomy 12:30
Take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods? - that I also may do the same.
Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
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Deuteronomy 1:29
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them.
Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.
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Psalms 77:11
I will remember the deeds of the Lord ; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
Psalms 105:5
Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered.
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Deuteronomy 6:22
And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.
Deuteronomy 11:3
His signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land.
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Exodus 23:28
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
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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.
Numbers 11:20
But a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'
Numbers 14:14
And they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people. For you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.
Nehemiah 1:5
And I said, "O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments.
Nehemiah 4:14
And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.
Nehemiah 9:32
Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.
Deuteronomy 28:58
If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God.
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Exodus 23:29 - 30
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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Joshua 10:24
And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings." Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.
Joshua 10:42
And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
Joshua 11:12
And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.
Joshua 12:1
Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:
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Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
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Deuteronomy 11:25
No one shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 10:8
And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.
Joshua 23:9
For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.
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Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
Exodus 32:20
He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.
1 Chronicles 14:12
And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.
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Joshua 7:1
But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.
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Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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Deuteronomy 13:17
None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers.
Leviticus 27:28
But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
Joshua 6:17 - 18
And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
Joshua 7:1
But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the Lord burned against the people of Israel.
Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
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