Deuteronomy 20:13

World English Bible (2000)

and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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  • Num 31:7-9 : 7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. 9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16 : 15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
  • Ps 2:6-9 : 6 "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion." 7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father. 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12 Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him. A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
  • Ps 110:1 : 1 Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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  • Deut 20:14-17
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    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 13:15-16
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    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.

  • Deut 21:10
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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 20:10-12
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    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.

    12 If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • Deut 7:2
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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;

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    10 The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

    11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

  • Num 31:17-18
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    17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

    18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

  • Josh 6:21
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    21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4-5
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    4 Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

    5 Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

  • Deut 19:1
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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;

  • Deut 2:33-34
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    33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.

    34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

  • Deut 7:23-24
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    23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

    24 He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: no man shall be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Num 31:7
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    7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Deut 7:16
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19 You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

  • Deut 3:6
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    6 We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Josh 11:12
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    12 Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    19 but don't stay. Pursue your enemies, and them from the rear. Don't allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand."

    20 It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • Exod 32:27
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    27 He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.'"

  • Exod 22:24
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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.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • Josh 11:14
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    14 The children of Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who breathed.

  • Num 25:17
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    17 "Harass the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Deut 13:9
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    9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
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    5 To the others he said in my hearing, Go through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have pity;

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  • Josh 10:39
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    39 He took it, with its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

  • Lev 26:7
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    7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 20:20
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    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.

  • Deut 12:29
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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 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

  • Deut 3:18
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    18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

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    30 Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 10:35
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    35 They took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.