The only city that made peace with the people of Israel was Gibeon, where some of the Hivites lived. All the others were conquered in battle.

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

I will make the borders of your land extend from the Gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean Sea and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give you power over the inhabitants of the land, and you will drive them out as you advance.

Do not let those people live in your country; if you do, they will make you sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will be a fatal trap for you."

Do not make any treaties with the people of the country into which you are going, because this could be a fatal trap for you.

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land. Destroy all their stone and metal idols and all their places of worship.

When the LORD your God places these people in your power and you defeat them, you must put them all to death. Do not make an alliance with them or show them any mercy.

Do not marry any of them, and do not let your children marry any of them,

"But when you capture cities in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, kill everyone.

You must not make any covenant with the people who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.' But you have not done what I told you. You have done just the opposite!