^31 (A)I will fix your boundary from the ^[a]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River Euphrates; ^(B)for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will ^(C)drive them out before 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, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(G)it will surely be a snare to you.”

² So ^(A)Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will ^[a]utterly destroy their cities.” ³ The Lord heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they ^[b]utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called ^[c](B)Hormah.

Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations greater and stronger than you, ² and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)then you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall make no covenant with them ^(E)and show no favor 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 to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ^[j]Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

^14 (A)All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one who breathed.