Deuteronomy 20:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Deut 20:16-20
    5 verses
    85%

    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:

    18 That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so you would sin against the LORD your God.

    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 20:10-14
    5 verses
    83%

    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.

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

    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.

  • Deut 13:15-17
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

    17 And there shall cling nothing of the cursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

  • Deut 19:1-3
    3 verses
    77%

    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;

    2 You shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

    3 You shall prepare a road for yourself, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 7:2
    74%

    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:

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    74%

    34 And we took all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves as spoil, and the plunder of the cities which we took.

  • Deut 12:29
    73%

    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;

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

    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.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23 And you shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 7:16-17
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    73%

    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 19:7
    73%

    7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20 As the nations which the LORD destroyed before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19 To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.

  • Judg 21:11
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    11 And this is what you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.

  • Deut 18:9
    72%

    9 When you come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 12:2
    72%

    2 You shall completely destroy all the places where the nations you are dispossessing served their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Deut 21:10
    72%

    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 13:12
    72%

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

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    72%

    19 And do not stay there, but pursue your enemies, and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.

    20 And it happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, that the rest who remained entered into fortified cities.

  • Deut 19:9
    72%

    9 If you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three;

  • Josh 11:12
    72%

    12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Num 14:15
    72%

    15 Now if you shall kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

  • Deut 16:20
    72%

    20 That which is altogether just you shall follow, that you may live, and inherit the land which the LORD your God gives you.

  • Deut 13:7
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    7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;

  • Num 33:52
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    52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:

  • Deut 6:10
    71%

    10 And it shall be, when the LORD your God has brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and good cities, which you did not build,

  • Num 31:18
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    18 But all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Deut 3:19
    71%

    19 But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (for I know that you have much livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have given you;

  • Deut 21:2
    71%

    2 Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
    71%

    19 And you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall cut down every good tree, and stop up all the springs of water, and ruin every good piece of land with stones."

  • Lev 18:24
    71%

    24 Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled, which I cast out before you.

  • Deut 7:22
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    22 And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little: you may not consume them all at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.

  • Josh 11:14
    71%

    14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the livestock, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, leaving none that breathed.