Deuteronomy 20:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if it will not make peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

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  • Deut 20:9-11
    3 verses
    87%

    9 And it shall be, when the officers have finished speaking to the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.

    10 When you come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

    11 And it shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people that are found within shall be tributaries to you, and they shall serve you.

  • Deut 20:13-17
    5 verses
    80%

    13 And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

    15 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

    17 But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Deut 20:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19 When you besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees by forcing an axe against them: for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:

    20 Only the trees which you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it is subdued.

  • Deut 28:52
    74%

    52 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land: and he shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • Deut 21:10
    74%

    10 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

    16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every bit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • Deut 7:2
    72%

    2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

  • Ezek 26:9
    72%

    9 And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Num 32:20
    71%

    20 And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before the LORD to war,

  • Ezek 4:2
    71%

    2 And lay siege against it, build a fort against it, and throw up a ramp against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it all around.

  • Deut 20:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

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

    2 And it shall be, when you are near the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,

  • Deut 6:19
    71%

    19 To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • Josh 11:19-20
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    71%

    19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle.

    20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might find no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Luke 19:43
    71%

    43 For the days shall come upon you, when your enemies will build an embankment around you and surround you and enclose you on every side,

  • Josh 8:7
    70%

    7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

  • Ezek 16:40
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    40 They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

  • Lev 26:17
    70%

    17 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before your enemies: those that hate you shall reign over you; and you shall flee when none pursues you.

  • 2 Sam 11:20
    70%

    20 if it so happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you, Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know they would shoot from the wall?

  • Deut 7:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity on them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

    17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Deut 31:5
    70%

    5 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

  • Deut 12:29
    70%

    29 When the LORD your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go to dispossess them, and you take their place and dwell in their land;

  • Jer 1:19
    70%

    19 They shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.

  • Isa 29:3
    70%

    3 And I will camp against you all around, and will lay siege against you with a mound, and I will raise forts against you.

  • Deut 13:12
    69%

    12 If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

  • Jer 15:20
    69%

    20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brass wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD.

  • Lev 26:7
    69%

    7 And you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 20:18
    69%

    18 And he said, Whether they come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they come out for war, take them alive.

  • 2 Chr 20:10
    69%

    10 And now, see, the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them;

  • Luke 10:6
    69%

    6 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon it: if not, it will return to you.

  • Nah 3:14
    69%

    14 Draw water for the siege, fortify your strongholds: go into clay and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln.

  • Exod 22:24
    69%

    24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

  • Num 25:17
    69%

    17 Harass the Midianites, and strike them:

  • Deut 20:4
    69%

    4 For the LORD your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

  • Deut 28:25
    69%

    25 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Num 32:30
    69%

    30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

  • Exod 14:14
    69%

    14 The LORD shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

  • 2 Sam 12:28
    69%

    28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, encamp against the city, and take it: unless I take the city, and it be called by my name.

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