1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to ^apossess, and has cast out many ^bnations before you, ^cthe Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,  ‡

4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; ^aso the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.  ‡

5 But thus you shall deal with them: you shall ^adestroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their¹ wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.  ‡