Deuteronomy 20:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

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  • Lev 25:42-46 : 42 For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. 43 Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. 44 But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. 45 And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. 46 And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.
  • Josh 9:22-23 : 22 Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us? 23 Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.
  • Josh 9:27 : 27 And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.
  • Josh 11:19-20 : 19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war. 20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
  • Judg 1:28 : 28 And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.
  • Judg 1:30-35 : 30 Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work. 31 And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out; 32 But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out. 33 Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work. 34 And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley; 35 For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work.
  • 1 Kgs 9:21-22 : 21 Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day. 22 But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
  • Ps 120:7 : 7 I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.
  • Luke 19:14 : 14 But his people had no love for him, and sent representatives after him, saying, We will not have this man for our ruler.

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    12 If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:

    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

    15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

  • Deut 20:9-10
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    9 Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.

    10 When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.

  • Isa 60:11-12
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    11 Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.

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  • Deut 21:10
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    10 When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

  • 2 Sam 22:45
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    45 Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.

  • 1 Kgs 12:7
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    7 And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

  • Deut 31:5
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    5 The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
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    16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

    17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

  • Deut 20:1-2
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    1 When you go out to war against other nations, and come face to face with horses and war-carriages and armies greater in number than yourselves, have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.

    2 And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,

  • Lev 26:7
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    7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.

  • Luke 10:6
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    6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

  • Josh 9:11
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    11 So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Deut 28:48
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    48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

  • Exod 18:23
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    23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

  • 1 Sam 17:9
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    9 If he is able to have a fight with me and overcome me, then we will be your servants: but if I am able to overcome him, then you will be our servants and do work for us.

  • 1 Sam 25:6
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    6 And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.

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    43 You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

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    3 And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.

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    20 Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.

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    2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

    3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,

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    1 When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

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    24 So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

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    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • 2 Chr 10:7
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    7 And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

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    19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

  • 1 Sam 20:7
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    7 If he says, It is well, your servant will be at peace: but if he is angry, then it will be clear to you that he has an evil purpose in mind against me.

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    22 And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

  • Deut 11:25
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    25 All people will give way before you: for the Lord your God will put the fear of you on all the land through which you go, as he has said.

  • Jer 22:4
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    4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people

  • Num 32:27
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    27 But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

  • Jer 27:11
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    11 But as for that nation which puts its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and becomes his servant, I will let that nation keep on in its land, farming it and living in it, says the Lord.

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    19 It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.

  • Ps 72:11
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    11 Yes, let all kings go down before him; let all nations be his servants.

  • Deut 11:23
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    23 Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

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    19 To send out from before you all those who are against you.

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    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

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    1 Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

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    14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

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    18 And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.