Deuteronomy 7:2

“You shall cut no covenant with them or with their gods.

“They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

“So now, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.

“But Yahweh our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down with his sons and all his people.

“So we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining.

“And you shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God will give over to you; your eye shall not pity them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

you shall not be willing to accept him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him; and you shall not spare him or conceal him.

“You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

“Only in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.

“And Yahweh will give them over before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

“The eternal God is a dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And He drove out the enemy from before you, And said, ‘Destroy!’

Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you are living within our land; how then shall we cut a covenant with you?”

And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and he devoted them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded.

and as for you, you shall cut no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice; what is this you have done?

Now it happened, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians as a wife, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.

“So now let us cut a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

In those days I also saw that the Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

They did not destroy the peoples, As Yahweh commanded them,