DEUTERONOMY 20:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:”
You shall annihilate them — the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites — just as the LORD your God has commanded — the catalog of seven Canaanite nations frames the herem as God's explicit command; the annihilation is presented as covenantal obedience to divine mandate rather than human cruelty.
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