Deuteronomy 20:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Deut 20:16-20
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    85%

    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

    17but 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;

    18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

    19When 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?

    20Only 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 20:10-14
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    10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

    11It 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.

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

    13and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

    14but 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.

  • Deut 13:15-17
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    15you 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.

    16You 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.

    17Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

  • Deut 19:1-3
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    77%

    1When 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;

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

    3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and 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;

  • Deut 2:34-35
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    34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

    35only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29When 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;

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

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

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

  • Deut 7:16-17
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    16You 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.

    17If you shall say in your heart, "These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?"

  • Deut 19:7
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    7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn't listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

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

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

  • Judg 21:11
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    11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

  • Deut 18:9
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    9When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

  • Deut 12:2
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    2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree:

  • Deut 21:10
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    10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • Deut 13:12
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    12If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, saying,

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    19but 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."

    20It 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,

  • Deut 19:9
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    9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

  • Josh 11:12
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    12Joshua 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.

  • Num 14:15
    72%

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

  • Deut 16:20
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    20You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

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

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

  • Deut 6:10
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    10It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,

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

  • Deut 3:19
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    19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

  • Deut 21:2
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    2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19You 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.'"

  • Lev 18:24
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    24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Deut 7:22
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    22Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

  • Josh 11:14
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    14The 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.