Ulangan 9:8

9:8 At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

Ulangan 9:1

Theological Justification of the Conquest

9:1 Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications. ¹ 

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ²  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

[9:1]  ¹ tn Heb “fortified to the heavens” (so NRSV); NLT “cities with walls that reach to the sky.” This is hyperbole.

[15:3]  ² tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).