Deuteronomy 20:12

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But if it does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you shall besiege it.

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  • Deut 20:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9When the officers have finished speaking to the people, they shall appoint commanders to lead the armies at the head of the troops.

    10When you approach a city to fight against it, offer it peace terms.

    11If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people found in it shall serve you and work for you.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    80%

    13When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword.

    14However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

    15This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not part of the cities of these nations.

    16But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

    17Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Deut 20:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19When you lay siege to a city for a long time to capture it, do not destroy its trees by cutting them down with an axe, for you may eat from them. Do not cut them down, for is the tree of the field a human that it should face the siege with you?

    20However, you may cut down only the trees that you know are not fruit-bearing. Use them to build siege works against the city that is at war with you, until it falls.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until your high fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down. They will besiege all the cities in the land the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 21:10
    74%

    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report is true and confirmed that such a detestable act has been done among you,

    16you must surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the sword, devoting it and all that is in it, including its livestock, to complete destruction.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy.

  • Ezek 26:9
    72%

    9'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20Moses said to them, "If you will do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,

  • Ezek 4:2
    71%

    2Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around.

  • Deut 20:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

    2When you approach the battle, the priest shall come forward and address the people.

  • Deut 6:19
    71%

    19He will drive out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has promised.

  • Josh 11:19-20
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    71%

    19No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon. All others were taken in battle.

    20For it was the LORD's purpose to harden their hearts to engage in battle with Israel, so that they would be utterly destroyed, receiving no mercy, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Luke 19:43
    71%

    43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build a barricade against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side.

  • Josh 8:7
    70%

    7"Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands."

  • Ezek 16:40
    70%

    40They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.

  • Deut 19:1
    70%

    1When the LORD your God eliminates the nations whose land He is giving you, and you take possession of them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Lev 26:17
    70%

    17I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is chasing you.

  • 2 Sam 11:20
    70%

    20if the king becomes angry and asks, "Why did you go so near the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

  • Deut 7:16-17
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    70%

    16You shall destroy all the nations the LORD your God is giving over to you. Do not look on them with pity, and do not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

    17If you say in your heart, 'These nations are too numerous for me; how can I drive them out?'

  • Deut 31:5
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    5The LORD will deliver them to you, and you must act toward them according to the entire commandment I have instructed you.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29When the Lord your God cuts off the nations before you, the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,

  • Jer 1:19
    70%

    19They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue you,' declares the LORD.

  • Isa 29:3
    70%

    3I will encamp in a circle against you, I will besiege you with towers, and I will raise siegeworks against you.

  • Deut 13:12
    69%

    12All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do such wickedness among you.

  • Jer 15:20
    69%

    20I will make you a fortified bronze wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you,' declares the LORD.

  • Lev 26:7
    69%

    7You will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 20:18
    69%

    18He said, 'If they have come out for peace, capture them alive; and if they have come out for war, capture them alive.'

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    69%

    10'But now, here are the men from Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whose land you would not let Israel invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.'

  • Luke 10:6
    69%

    6If a peaceful person is there, your peace will rest on them; but if not, it will return to you.

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14Draw water for the siege, strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold.

  • Exod 22:24
    69%

    24If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Num 25:17
    69%

    17‘Treat the Midianites as enemies and strike them down.

  • Deut 20:4
    69%

    4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and to give you victory.

  • Deut 28:25
    69%

    25The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will become a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Num 32:30
    69%

    30But if they do not cross over armed with you, they must take their possession among you in the land of Canaan."

  • Exod 14:14
    69%

    14The LORD will fight for you; you need only to remain silent.

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    69%

    28Now gather the rest of the troops and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise, I will take the city, and it will be named after me.'