Deuteronomy 9:14
9:14 Stand aside 1 and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory, 2 and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.”
Deuteronomy 25:19
25:19 So when the Lord your God gives you relief from all the enemies who surround you in the land he 3 is giving you as an inheritance, 4 you must wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven 5 – do not forget! 6
Deuteronomy 29:20
29:20 The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger 7 will rage 8 against that man; all the curses 9 written in this scroll will fall upon him 10 and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory. 11
1 tn Heb “leave me alone.”
2 tn Heb “from under heaven.”
3 tn Heb “ the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.
4 tn The Hebrew text includes “to possess it.”
5 tn Or “from beneath the sky.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
6 sn This command is fulfilled in 1 Sam 15:1-33.
7 tn Heb “the wrath of the Lord and his zeal.” The expression is a hendiadys, a figure in which the second noun becomes adjectival to the first.
8 tn Heb “smoke,” or “smolder.”
9 tn Heb “the entire oath.”
10 tn Or “will lie in wait against him.”
11 tn Heb “blot out his name from under the sky.”