Deuteronomy 20:15

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This 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.

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  • Deut 20:16-20
    5 verses
    85%

    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.

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

    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 20:10-14
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    83%

    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.

    12But if it does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you shall besiege it.

    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.

  • Deut 13:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

    17Gather all the spoil of that city into its public square and burn the city and all its plunder as a complete offering to the LORD your God. It must remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.

  • Deut 19:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    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,

    2you are to set apart three cities in the midst of the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

    3Prepare roads for yourself and divide your land into three regions, the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that anyone who kills someone may flee there.

  • Deut 7:2
    74%

    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.

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    34At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city, including the men, women, and children; we left no survivors.

    35Only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we took as spoil for ourselves.

  • Deut 12:29
    73%

    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,

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

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

  • Lev 20:23
    73%

    23Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • Deut 7:16-17
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    73%

    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 19:7
    73%

    7This is why I am commanding you: Set apart three cities for yourselves.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19He will drive out all your enemies before you, as the LORD has promised.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6We completely destroyed them, just as we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon. In every city, we destroyed the men, women, and children.

  • Judg 21:11
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    11This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

  • Deut 12:2
    72%

    2Completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing worshiped their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  • Deut 21:10
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    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

  • Deut 13:12
    72%

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

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    72%

    19But as for you, do not stop! Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands.”

    20So Joshua and the Israelites completely defeated them with a great slaughter, almost wiping them out. But a few survivors managed to retreat to their fortified cities.

  • Deut 19:9
    72%

    9and you carefully keep this entire commandment I am commanding you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk in His ways all your days, then you shall add three more cities to these three.

  • Josh 11:12
    72%

    12Joshua captured all the cities of these kings and their kings as well. He struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Num 14:15
    72%

    15If you put all these people to death as one man, the nations who have heard about your fame will say,

  • Deut 16:20
    72%

    20Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 13:7
    72%

    7If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

  • Num 33:52
    72%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  • Deut 6:10
    71%

    10When the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to you, with cities great and good that you did not build,

  • Num 31:18
    71%

    18But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.

  • Deut 3:19
    71%

    19'But your wives, children, and livestock—I know you have much livestock—may stay in the towns I have given you.'

  • Deut 21:2
    71%

    2then your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    71%

    19You will destroy every fortified city and every major town, cut down every good tree, stop up all the springs, and ruin every good field with stones.

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

  • Deut 7:22
    71%

    22The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

  • Josh 11:14
    71%

    14The Israelites took all the plunder and livestock of these cities for themselves, but they killed all the people with the sword, completely destroying them and leaving no survivors.