Deuteronomy 7:2

and he ¹  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ²  them. Make no treaty ³  with them and show them no mercy!

Ge 14:20; Ex 23:32,33; Ex 34:12-16; Le 27:28,29; Nu 33:52; De 3:3; De 7:23,24; De 20:10,11; De 20:16,17; De 23:14; Jos 2:14; Jos 6:17-25; Jos 8:24; Jos 9:18-21; Jos 9:24; Jos 10:24,25,30,32,42; Jos 10:28,40; Jos 11:11,12; Jos 21:44; Jud 1:4; Jud 1:24; Jud 2:2; 2Sa 21:2

¹ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

² tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

³ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”