Joshua 11:12
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12 So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, (A)as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
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2 and when the Lord your God delivers (A)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (B)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
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Deuteronomy 20:16-17
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16 “But (A)of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,
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Numbers 33:50-53
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Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan
50 Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: (A)‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 (B)then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their [a]high places; 53 you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to (C)possess.
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- Numbers 33:52 Places for pagan worship
Joshua 11:15
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15 (A)As the Lord had commanded Moses His servant, so (B)Moses commanded Joshua, and (C)so Joshua did. [a]He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.
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- Joshua 11:15 Lit. He turned aside from nothing
Joshua 10:39-40
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39 And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king.
40 So Joshua conquered all the land: the (A)mountain country and the [a]South and the lowland and the wilderness slopes, and (B)all their kings; he left none remaining, but (C)utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.
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- Joshua 10:40 Heb. Negev, and so throughout the book
Joshua 10:37
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37 And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword—its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it.
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Joshua 10:35
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35 They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
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Joshua 10:32
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32 And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
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Joshua 10:30
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30 And the Lord also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel; he struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it, but did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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Joshua 10:28
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Conquest of the Southland
28 On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly (A)destroyed [a]them—all the people who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah (B)as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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- Joshua 10:28 So with MT and most authorities; many Heb. mss., some LXX mss., and some Tg. mss. it
Joshua 9:24
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24 So they answered Joshua and said, “Because your servants were clearly told that the Lord your God (A)commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore (B)we were very much afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
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Joshua 8:31
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31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: (A)“an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And (B)they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
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Joshua 8:8
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8 And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. (A)See, I have commanded you.”
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