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 7:5
Konteks7:5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, 4 cut down their sacred Asherah poles, 5 and burn up their idols.
Ulangan 7:16
Konteks7:16 You must destroy 6 all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship 7 their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
[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.”
[7:5] 4 sn Sacred pillars. The Hebrew word (מַצֵּבֹת, matsevot) denotes a standing pillar, usually made of stone. Its purpose was to mark the presence of a shrine or altar thought to have been visited by deity. Though sometimes associated with pure worship of the
[7:5] 5 sn Sacred Asherah poles. A leading deity of the Canaanite pantheon was Asherah, wife/sister of El and goddess of fertility. She was commonly worshiped at shrines in or near groves of evergreen trees, or, failing that, at places marked by wooden poles (Hebrew אֲשֵׁרִים [’asherim], as here). They were to be burned or cut down (Deut 12:3; 16:21; Judg 6:25, 28, 30; 2 Kgs 18:4).
[7:16] 6 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.”
