⁴⁰ So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland ^(A)and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, ^(B)but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

^2 (A)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^(B)devote them to complete destruction.^{[a] (C)}You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. ^3 (D)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. ^(E)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you ^(F)quickly. ⁵ But thus shall you deal with them: ^(G)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ^(H)pillars and chop down their ^(I)Asherim and ^(J)burn their carved images with fire.

⁶ “For ^(K)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be ^(L)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. ⁷ 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, ⁸ but ^(M)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^(N)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. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, ^(O)the faithful God ^(P)who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, ¹⁰ and ^(Q)repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. ^(R)He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. ^11 (S)You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

^12 (T)“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you ^(U)the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. ¹³ He will ^(V)love you, bless you, and multiply you. ^(W)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. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all peoples. ^(X)There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. ¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil ^(Y)diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. ¹⁶ And ^(Z)you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. ^(AA)Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(AB)a snare to you.

⁷ and to grant ^(A)relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when ^(B)the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven ^(C)with his mighty angels ^8 (D)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those ^(E)who do not know God and on those who ^(F)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. ⁹ They will suffer the punishment of ^(G)eternal destruction, ^(H)away from^[a] the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

²⁹ And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, ^(A)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.

³⁷ and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.

³⁵ And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.

²⁴ They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had ^(A)commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so ^(B)we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.

²⁷ Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he ^(A)commanded Joshua.