Joshua 9:24
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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.
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Deuteronomy 20:15-17
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15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. 16 But (A)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but (B)you shall devote them to complete destruction,[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,
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- Deuteronomy 20:17 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
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A Chosen People
7 “When the (A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, (B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations (C)more numerous and mightier than you, 2 (D)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must (E)devote them to complete destruction.[a] (F)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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- Deuteronomy 7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Matthew 10:28
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28 And (A)do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him (B)who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a]
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- Matthew 10:28 Greek Gehenna
Numbers 33:55-56
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55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as (A)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. 56 And I will do to you (B)as I thought to do to them.”
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Exodus 23:31-33
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31 (A)And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates,[a] for (B)I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 (C)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, (D)it will surely be a snare to you.”
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- Exodus 23:31 Hebrew the River
Job 2:4
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4 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.
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Joshua 9:9
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9 They said to him, (A)“From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the Lord your God. (B)For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
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Deuteronomy 7:23-24
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23 (A)But the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24 And (B)he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall (C)make their name perish from under heaven. (D)No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.
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Numbers 33:51-52
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51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, (A)When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then (B)you shall drive out (C)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their (D)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.
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Exodus 15:14-16
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14 (A)The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
15 Now are the chiefs of Edom (B)dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of (C)Moab;
(D)all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
16 Terror and (E)dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still (F)as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom (G)you have purchased.
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