20 “One who sacrifices to any gods but Jehovah alone is to be devoted to destruction.*+

25 The graven images of their gods you should burn in the fire.+ You must not desire the silver and the gold upon them,+ nor indeed take it for yourself,+ for fear you may be ensnared by it;+ for it is a thing detestable+ to Jehovah your God.

26 And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house and actually become a thing devoted to destruction* like it. You should thoroughly loathe it and absolutely detest it,+ because it is something devoted to destruction.+

17 And the city must become a thing devoted to destruction;*+ it with everything that is in it belongs to Jehovah. Only Raʹhab+ the prostitute may keep on living, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent out.+

7 And the sons of Israel went committing an act of unfaithfulness respecting the thing devoted to destruction in that Aʹchan*+ the son of Carʹmi, the son of Zabʹdi, the son of Zeʹrah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the thing devoted to destruction.+ At this Jehovah’s anger grew hot against the sons of Israel.+

3 Now go, and you must strike down Amʹa·lek+ and devote him to destruction+ with all that he has, and you must not have compassion upon him, and you must put them to death,+ man as well as woman, child as well as suckling,+ bull as well as sheep, camel as well as ass.’”+