Numbers 33:52
Good News Translation
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all their stone and metal idols and all their places of worship.

New Revised Standard Version
you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Contemporary English Version
you must force out the people living there. Destroy their idols and tear down their altars.

New American Bible
dispossess all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Exodus 23:24,31-33 Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues. . . .

Exodus 34:12-17 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: . . .

Deuteronomy 7:2-5,25,26 And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them: . . .

Deuteronomy 12:2,3,30,31 Destroy all the places in which the nations, that you shall possess, worshipped their gods upon high mountains, and hills, and under every shady tree: . . .

Deuteronomy 20:16-18 But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live: . . .

Joshua 11:11,12 And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with fire. . . .

Joshua 23:7 Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:

Judges 2:2 On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

Context
Instructions for Occupying Canaan
51Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan, 52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: Beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,53Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things.

Deuteronomy 12:3
Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.

Deuteronomy 12:30
Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship.

Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Psalm 106:34
They did not destroy the nations of which the Lord spoke unto them.

Numbers 33:51
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