Deuteronomy 20:15

American Standard Version (1901)

Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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  • Deut 20:16-20
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    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;

    17but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

    18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.

    19When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

    20Only the trees of which thou knowest that they are not trees for food, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

  • Deut 20:10-14
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    10When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

    11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee.

    12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

    13and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

  • Deut 13:15-17
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    15thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

    16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a [ heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

    17And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

  • Deut 19:1-3
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    1When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

    2thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

    3Thou shalt prepare thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which Jehovah thy God causeth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee thither.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

    35only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou goest in to dispossess them, and thou dispossessest them, and dwellest in their land;

  • Deut 31:4-5
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    4And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.

    5And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 7:16-17
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    16And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

    17If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Deut 19:7
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    7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20As the nations that Jehovah maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah your God.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Judg 21:11
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    11And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9When thou art come into the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 12:2
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    2Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Deut 21:10
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    10When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

  • Deut 13:12
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    12If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    19but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand.

    20And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • Deut 19:9
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    9if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:

  • Josh 11:12
    72%

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded.

  • Num 14:15
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    15Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

  • Deut 16:20
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    20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

  • Deut 13:7
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    7of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

  • Num 33:52
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    52then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

  • Deut 6:10
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    10And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not,

  • Num 31:18
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    18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Deut 3:19
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    19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you,

  • Deut 21:2
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    2then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

  • Deut 7:22
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    22And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

  • Josh 11:14
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    14And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.