Ulangan 7:2
Konteks7:2 and he 1 delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate 2 them. Make no treaty 3 with them and show them no mercy!
Ulangan 20:16-18
Konteks20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that 4 the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing 5 to survive. 20:17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them 6 – the Hittites, 7 Amorites, 8 Canaanites, 9 Perizzites, 10 Hivites, 11 and Jebusites 12 – just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship 13 their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
[7:2] 1 tn Heb “the
[7:2] 2 tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”
[7:2] 3 tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”
[20:16] 4 tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”
[20:16] 5 tn Heb “any breath.”
[20:17] 6 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “utterly.” Cf. CEV “completely wipe out.”
[20:17] sn The Hebrew verb refers to placing persons or things so evil and/or impure as to be irredeemable under God’s judgment, usually to the extent of their complete destruction. See also the note on the phrase “the divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.
[20:17] 7 sn Hittite. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200
[20:17] 8 sn Amorite. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200
[20:17] 9 sn Canaanite. These were the indigenous peoples of the land of Palestine, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000
[20:17] 10 sn Perizzite. This probably refers to a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).
[20:17] 11 sn Hivite. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on “Horites” in Deut 2:12).
[20:17] 12 tc The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1).
[20:17] sn Jebusite. These people inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).
[20:18] 13 tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”