and he displayed great power<n id="1" /> and awesome might in view of all Israel.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc>, however, said to me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army,<n id="1" /> and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.&#8221;

I also commanded Joshua at the same time, &#8220;You have seen everything the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to these two kings; he<n id="1" /> will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.<n id="2" />

You must not worship the <sc>Lordsc> your God the way they do!<n id="1" /> For everything that is abhorrent<n id="2" /> to him,<n id="3" /> everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!p>

The <sc>Lordsc> your God is about to go<n id="1" /> ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt<n id="2" />

The Amorite inhabitants of that area<n id="1" /> confronted<n id="2" /> you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.<n id="3" />

This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

We put all of these under divine judgment<n id="1" /> just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon &#8211; every occupied city,<n id="2" /> including women and children.

Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the <sc>Lordsc> my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in<n id="1" /> the land you are about to enter and possess.

And he revealed to you the covenant<n id="1" /> he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments,<n id="2" /> writing them on two stone tablets.

Moreover, at that same time the <sc>Lordsc> commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.<n id="1" />p>

You must not make for yourself an image<n id="1" /> of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now these are the commandments,<n id="1" /> statutes, and ordinances that the <sc>Lordsc> your God instructed me to teach you so that you may carry them out in the land where you are headed<n id="2" />

Do whatever is proper<n id="1" /> and good before the <sc>Lordsc> so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he<n id="2" /> promised your ancestors,

The <sc>Lordsc> commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him<n id="1" /> so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

We will be innocent if we carefully keep all these commandments<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> our God, just as he demands.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars,<n id="1" /> cut down their sacred Asherah poles,<n id="2" /> and burn up their idols.

you must not fear them. You must carefully recall<n id="1" /> what the <sc>Lordsc> your God did to Pharaoh and all Egypt,

Stand aside<n id="1" /> and I will destroy them, obliterating their very name from memory,<n id="2" /> and I will make you into a stronger and more numerous nation than they are.&#8221;p>

When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;<n id="1" /> you had quickly turned aside from the way he<n id="2" /> had commanded you!