Deuteronomy 21:10

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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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  • Deut 20:10-16 : 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. 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. 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.
  • Josh 21:44 : 44 The LORD made them secure, in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could resist them. The LORD handed all their enemies over to them.

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    11if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

    12you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

    13discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.

    14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

  • Deut 20:9-15
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    9Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.

    10When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

    11If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

    12If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

    13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

    14However, 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.

    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

  • Deut 20:1-2
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    1Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber 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.

    2As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,

  • Num 31:9
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    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Deut 20:7
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    7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

  • Judg 21:21-22
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    21and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

    22When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

  • Deut 31:5
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    5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and 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 19:1
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    1Laws 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,

  • Num 31:17-19
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    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

    18But all the young women who have not experienced a man’s bed will be yours.

    19Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    10So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors against Jabesh Gilead. They commanded them,“Go and kill with your swords the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

    11Do 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.

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

  • Josh 8:7
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    7Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.

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    27Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war– who went out to battle– and the other for all the community.

  • Deut 24:5
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    5When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

  • Deut 25:11-12
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    11If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,

    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Deut 23:9
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    9Purity in Personal Hygiene When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–

  • Num 31:2-3
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    2“Exact vengeance for the Israelites from the Midianites– after that you will be gathered to your people.”

    3So Moses spoke to the people:“Arm men from among you for the war, to attack the Midianites and to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
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    2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

  • Num 32:21
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    21and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

  • Josh 23:12
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    12But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,

  • Deut 12:29
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    29The 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 21:9
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    9In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.

  • Josh 23:10
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    10One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

  • Deut 12:10
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    10When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.

  • Deut 7:16
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    16Exhortation 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.

  • Deut 3:18
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    18Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes At that time I instructed you as follows:“The LORD your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.

  • Josh 1:14
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    14Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. You must help them

  • Deut 22:28
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    28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
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    10And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

  • 1 Chr 5:22
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    22Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.