Deuteronomy 7:1
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Chapter 7
Destruction of the Nations in the Land. 1 (A)When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and removes many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites,(B) seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—
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Judges 2:1-5
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Chapter 2
Infidelities of the Israelites. 1 A messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you, 2 but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars.(A) But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done! 3 For I also said,[a] I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.(B)
4 When the messenger of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud. 5 They named that place Bochim,[b] and they offered sacrifice there to the Lord.
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