Deuteronomy 7:2

And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee,.... Into their hands:

thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; men, women, and children; which was ordered not merely to make way…

See Deu 6:10 note. Deu 7:5 Their groves - Render, their idols of wood: the reference is to the wooden trunk used as a representation of Ashtaroth; see Deu 7:13 and Exo 34:13 note. Deu 7:7 The fewest…

Here is, I. A very strict caution against all friendship and fellowship with idols and idolaters. Those that are taken into communion with God must have no communication with the unfruitful works of…

deliver them up before See on Deu 1:8.

thou shall utterly destroy them put to the ban, herem. See on Deu 2:34.

make no covenant with them no treaty or alliance; so in JE, Exo 23:32; Exo 34:12; cp. Jos…