Deuteronomy 20:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

Additional Resources

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 20:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9Then, after saying these words to the people, let the overseers put captains over the army.

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

    11And 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.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    80%

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

    14But 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.

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

    16But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

    17Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

  • Deut 20:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

    20Only 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.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Deut 21:10
    74%

    10When 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;

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

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

    16And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Ezek 26:9
    72%

    9He will put up his engines of war against your walls, and your towers will be broken down by his axes.

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • Ezek 4:2
    71%

    2And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.

  • Deut 20:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1When 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.

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

  • Deut 6:19
    71%

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

  • Josh 11:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

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

    20For 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.

  • Luke 19:43
    71%

    43For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,

  • Josh 8:7
    70%

    7Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • Deut 19:1
    70%

    1When 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;

  • Lev 26:17
    70%

    17And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.

  • 2 Sam 11:20
    70%

    20If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?

  • Deut 7:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

    17If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

  • Deut 31:5
    70%

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

  • Deut 12:29
    70%

    29When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

  • Jer 1:19
    70%

    19They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.

  • Isa 29:3
    70%

    3And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.

  • Deut 13:12
    69%

    12And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

  • Jer 15:20
    69%

    20And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

  • Lev 26:7
    69%

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

  • 1 Kgs 20:18
    69%

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

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    69%

    10And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:

  • Luke 10:6
    69%

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

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

  • Exod 22:24
    69%

    24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

  • Num 25:17
    69%

    17Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;

  • Deut 20:4
    69%

    4For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.

  • Deut 28:25
    69%

    25The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Num 32:30
    69%

    30But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

  • Exod 14:14
    69%

    14The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    69%

    28So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.