Deuteronomy 20:12
If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:
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9 It shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that they shall appoint captains of armies at the head of the people.
10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
11 It shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.
- Deut 20:13-175 verses80%
13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
14 but the women, and the little ones, and the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its spoil, you shall take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
- Deut 20:19-202 verses76%
19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?
20 Only the trees of which you know that they 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 fall.
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52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
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10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
- Deut 13:15-162 verses73%
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 its livestock, with the edge of the sword.
16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
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2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
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9 He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
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20 Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
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2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
- Deut 20:1-22 verses71%
1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, [and] a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
2 It shall be, when you draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people,
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19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
- Josh 11:19-202 verses71%
19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.
20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
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43 For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
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7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
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40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
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1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
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17 I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
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20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he asks you, 'Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Didn't you know that they would shoot from the wall?
- Deut 7:16-172 verses70%
16 You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity 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?"
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5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.
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29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
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19 They will fight against you; but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you," says Yahweh, "to deliver you."
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3 I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.
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12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
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20 I will make you to this people a fortified bronze 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 Yahweh.
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7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
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18 He said, "If they have come out for peace, take them alive; or if they have come out for war, take them alive."
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10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
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6 If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
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14 Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
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24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;
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4 for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you."
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25 Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
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30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
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14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."
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28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name."