Drive Out the Nations
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— Deu 31:3Act 13:19Deu 4:38Deu 20:1Deu 9:1Exo 33:2Gen 15:18-21Psa 44:2-3 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. 1 Make no treaty 2with them and show them no mercy. Exo 23:32-33Jdg 2:2Deu 20:16-17Deu 23:14Jos 10:30Jos 11:11-12Jos 2:14Lev 27:28-29
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 1Ki 11:2Jos 23:12-13Exo 34:15-162Co 6:14-17Jdg 3:6-7Neh 13:23-27Ezr 9:1-2Gen 6:2-3 because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. Deu 6:15Deu 32:16-17Deu 4:26Exo 20:5Jdg 10:6-7Jdg 2:11Jdg 2:20Jdg 3:7-8
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire. Exo 23:24Deu 12:2-3Exo 34:13Deu 16:22Deu 7:25Deu 9:21Jdg 6:25-26Lev 26:1 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. Deu 14:2Exo 19:5-61Pe 2:9Mal 3:171Co 6:19-20Deu 26:19Jer 2:3Amo 3:2
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. Deu 10:22Rom 9:11-151Jn 4:10Psa 115:1Rom 9:21Isa 51:2Luk 12:32Mat 7:14 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Exo 20:2Eph 2:4-5Exo 32:13Jer 31:3Deu 10:15Isa 43:4Exo 13:14Exo 13:3
Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments. Heb 10:232Ti 2:132Th 3:3Dan 9:41Co 1:9Neh 1:51Th 5:24Rom 8:28 But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him. Isa 59:18Nam 1:2Rom 12:19Deu 32:352Pe 3:9-10Deu 32:25Deu 7:9Exo 20:5
So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day. Jhn 14:15Deu 4:1Deu 5:32
The Promises of God
(Exodus 23:20–33)
If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers. Deu 28:1-14Deu 7:9Lev 26:3-13Psa 105:8-10Luk 1:72-73Mic 7:20Luk 1:55 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you. Jhn 14:21Deu 28:3-5Jhn 15:10Exo 23:25Jhn 16:27Deu 28:11Job 42:12Mal 3:10-11 You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock. Exo 23:26-33Deu 28:4Deu 28:11Psa 127:3Lev 26:9Deu 33:29Psa 147:19-20Psa 115:15
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you. Exo 15:26Psa 105:36-37Lev 26:3-4Deu 28:60Deu 28:27Exo 9:11 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you. Exo 23:33Jdg 8:271Co 15:33Deu 13:8Deu 19:13Deu 19:21Deu 25:12Deu 7:2
You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?” Num 13:32Num 33:53Deu 15:9Deu 18:21Deu 8:17Isa 14:13Isa 47:8Isa 49:21 But do not be afraid of them. Be sure to remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt: Psa 105:5Deu 31:6Deu 1:29Psa 77:11Isa 51:9-10Deu 3:6Exo 7:1-14Isa 41:10-14 the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. Deu 4:34Neh 9:10-11Jer 32:20-21Jos 3:10Deu 11:2-4Deu 29:3Ezk 20:6-9
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished. Jos 24:12Exo 23:28-30 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. Deu 10:17Neh 1:5Neh 9:32Jos 3:10Neh 4:14Isa 8:9-101Co 14:251Sa 4:8
The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you. Exo 23:29-30Jos 15:63 But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 2Th 1:9Deu 2:15Deu 8:20Deu 9:3Isa 13:6Jer 17:18Jol 1:15 He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them. Jos 10:8Jos 23:9Jos 1:5Jos 10:42Deu 11:25Deu 9:14Isa 54:17Jos 10:24-25
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God. Exo 32:201Ch 14:12Deu 17:1Deu 12:3Jos 7:211Ti 6:9-10Deu 23:18Deu 7:16 And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction. Deu 13:17Hos 14:8Ezk 11:18Isa 30:22Rom 2:22Ezk 14:7Jos 6:17-24Jos 7:1-26