^31 (A)I will set your boundary from the ^[a]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; ^(B)for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will ^(C)drive them out from you. ^32 (D)You shall ^[b]make no covenant with them ^(E)or with their gods. ^33 (F)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(G)it is certain to be a snare to you.”

² So ^(A)Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed hand over this people to me, then I will ^[a]utterly destroy their cities.” ³ The Lord heard the voice of Israel and turned over the Canaanites; then they ^[b]utterly destroyed them and their cities. And the place was named ^[c](B)Hormah.

Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations greater and mightier than you, ² and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall not make a covenant with them ^(E)nor be gracious to them. ³ Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your ^[c]daughters to ^[d]their sons, nor shall you take ^[e]their daughters for your ^[f]sons. ⁴ For ^[g]they will turn your ^[h]sons away from ^[i]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But this is what you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their ^[j]Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire.

¹⁴ And ^(A)all the spoils of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every person with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one breathing.