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but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
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A Judgment to Preserve Purity
Commentators explain that this severe command was not arbitrary but a specific divine judgment. It was intended to prevent the Canaanite's deeply corrupting 'abominations,' detailed elsewhere in the law, from infecting Israel and leading them away from God.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Directions intended to prevent wanton destruction of life and property in sieges.
(Deuteronomy 20:16) Forbearance, however, was …
19th Century
Anglican
Deuteronomy 20:10–20. SIEGES.
When thou comest nigh ... proclaim peace. —Not as the c…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But you shall utterly destroy them Men, women, and children: some think this is to be understood only of such cities which did…
