Ulangan 7:16

Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism

7:16 You must destroy ¹  all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship ²  their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Hakim-hakim 14:4

14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, ³  because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines ⁴  (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

[7:16]  ¹ tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”

[7:16]  ² tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[14:4]  ³ tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”

[14:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”