Deuteronomy 20:15
This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
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- Deut 20:16-205 verses85%
16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.
19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
20 However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.
- Deut 20:10-145 verses83%
10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.
11 If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.
12 If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.
13 The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
- Deut 13:15-173 verses80%
15 you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.
16 You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.
17 You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.
- Deut 19:1-33 verses77%
1 Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.
3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
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2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
- Deut 2:34-352 verses74%
34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
35 We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.
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29 The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
- Deut 31:4-52 verses73%
4 The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.
5 The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.
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23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
- Deut 7:16-172 verses73%
16 Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
17 If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
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7 Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
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20 Just like the nations the LORD is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.
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19 and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.
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6 We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.
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11 Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.
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9 Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
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2 You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods– on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
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10 Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
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12 Punishment of Community Idolatry Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you as a place to live, that
- Josh 10:19-202 verses72%
19 But don’t you delay! Chase your enemies and catch them! Don’t allow them to retreat to their cities, for the LORD your God is handing them over to you.”
20 Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.
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9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
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12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.
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15 If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
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20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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7 the gods of the surrounding people(whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).
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52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
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10 Exhortation to Worship the Lord Exclusively Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
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18 But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.
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19 But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.
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2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
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19 You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”
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24 Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
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22 He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.
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14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.