and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

After he took the children in his arms, he placed his hands on them and blessed them.

When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them,

Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!

But the Lord had mercy on them and felt pity for them. He extended his favor to them because of the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has been unwilling to destroy them or remove them from his presence to this very day.

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days.

They will not be hungry or thirsty; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water.

“You are to clothe them – your brother Aaron and his sons with him – and anoint them and ordain them and set them apart as holy, so that they may minister as my priests.

The Lord helps them and rescues them; he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, for they seek his protection.

But he sternly warned them not to make him known.

Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

He caused all their conquerors to have pity on them.

I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!