Deuteronomy 19:1
Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
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- Deut 12:29 : 29 The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
- Deut 6:10 : 10 Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
- Deut 7:1-2 : 1 The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you– 2 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!
- Deut 12:1 : 1 The Central Sanctuary These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.
- Deut 17:14 : 14 Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
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29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
- Deut 19:2-32 verses81%
2you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.
3You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
- Deut 9:4-52 verses79%
4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.
5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deut 6:10-112 verses78%
10Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
11houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,
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5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.
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1Presentation of the First Fruits When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,
- Deut 7:1-22 verses77%
1The Dispossession of Nonvassals When the LORD your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you– Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you–
2and 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!
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23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
- Deut 20:13-175 verses77%
13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
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31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.
- Deut 6:18-192 verses76%
18Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.
- Num 33:52-532 verses76%
52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.
- Deut 19:7-93 verses76%
7Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
8If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
9and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
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38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.
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24Their descendants entered and possessed the land. You subdued before them the Canaanites who were the inhabitants of the land. You delivered them into their hand, together with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with as they pleased.
- Deut 31:3-53 verses75%
3As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.
4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.
5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.
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17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
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10When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.
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1Theological Justification of the Conquest Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.
- Deut 7:22-232 verses74%
22He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.
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1The Central Sanctuary These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.
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19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.
- Judg 11:23-242 verses74%
23Since the LORD God of Israel has driven out the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them?
24You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the LORD our God has driven out before us.
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12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
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13I gave you a land in which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
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9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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19After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.
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10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
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14Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
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15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.
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14Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
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4However, there should not be any poor among you, for the LORD will surely bless you in the land that he is giving you as an inheritance,
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15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”