To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me; except me there is no Savior.

But the Lord became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

Then he will not exalt himself above his fellow citizens or turn from the commandments to the right or left, and he and his descendants will enjoy many years ruling over his kingdom in Israel.

The Lord says, ‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.

And the Lord God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

But the Lord said to him, “All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much.” Then the Lord put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.

“Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes that have been done before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”

If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –

‘Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.’

So they defeated Og, his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, and they possessed his land.

So the Lord our God did indeed give over to us King Og of Bashan and his whole army and we struck them down until not a single survivor was left.

Be sure you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments, ordinances, and statutes that I am giving you today.

However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army until no survivors remained.

No city made peace with the Israelites (except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,