Deuteronomy 21:10

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

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  • Deut 20:10-16 : 10 When you approach a city to fight against it, offer it peace terms. 11 If 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. 12 But if it does not make peace with you and wages war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hands, strike down every male there with the sword. 14 However, 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. 15 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. 16 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
  • Josh 21:44 : 44 The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. Not one of their enemies could stand against them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hands.

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  • Deut 21:11-14
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    90%

    11if you see among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

    12Bring her into your home, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

    13She shall remove the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

    14But if you are not pleased with her, you must let her go wherever she wishes. You are not to sell her for money or treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Deut 20:9-15
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    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.

    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.

    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.

  • Deut 20:1-2
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    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.

  • Num 31:9
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    9The Israelites captured the women of Midian and their children, and they took all their livestock, all their goods, and all their wealth as plunder.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7If anyone is engaged to a woman but has not yet married her, let him go back to his house, lest he die in battle and another man marry her.

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    21'Watch, and when the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dances, rush out from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife for yourself from the daughters of Shiloh. Then return to the land of Benjamin.'

    22'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

  • 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 7:2
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    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 19:1
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    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,

  • Num 31:17-19
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    17Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

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

    19You must remain outside the camp for seven days. Anyone who has killed someone or touched a dead body must purify themselves on the third day and on the seventh day, both you and your captives.

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    10So the assembly sent twelve thousand armed men with the command, 'Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the sword, including the women and children.'

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

  • Deut 20:4
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    4For the LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and to give you victory.

  • Josh 8:7
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    7"Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands."

  • Num 31:27
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    27'Divide the plunder between the warriors who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.'

  • Deut 24:5
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    5If a man has recently married, he is not to be sent to war or have any duty laid on him. He is to be free to stay at home for one year and bring joy to his wife whom he has married.

  • Deut 25:11-12
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    11If two men fight with each other, and the wife of one comes to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs him by his private parts,

    12then you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

  • Deut 23:9
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    9The children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11You are entering into the covenant of the LORD your God and His oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today.

  • Num 31:2-3
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    2Take vengeance on the Midianites for the people of Israel. Afterward, you will be gathered to your people.

    3So Moses said to the people, 'Arm some of your men for battle, to go against Midian and execute the LORD's vengeance on Midian.'

  • 1 Sam 30:2
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    2The Amalekites had taken the women and everyone in the city captive, from the youngest to the oldest. They had not killed anyone but had taken them away as prisoners and gone on their way.

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

  • Num 32:21
    71%

    21and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies from His presence—

  • Josh 23:12
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    12But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,

  • 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,

  • Deut 21:9
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    9So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • Josh 23:10
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    10One of you will chase a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

  • Deut 12:10
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    10But when you cross the Jordan and settle in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in safety,

  • Deut 7:16
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    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.

  • Deut 3:18
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    18At that time I commanded you: 'The LORD your God has given you this land to take possession of it. All your fighting men, fully armed, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites.'

  • Josh 1:14
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    14Your wives, your children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on the east side of the Jordan. But you, all your strong warriors, fully armed, must cross ahead of your brothers and help them.

  • Deut 22:28
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    28If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin and not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

  • 2 Chr 28:10
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    10And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22Many were killed because the battle was from God, and they lived in their territory until the time of the exile.