Deuteronomy 20:16

But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.

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In The King James Version

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

In Context

15So shall you do to all the cities which are at a great distance from you, those which are not among the cities that you shall receive as a possession.

17Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:2But Israel, obliging himself by a vow to the Lord, said: “If you deliver this people into my hand, I will wipe away their cities.”

Numbers 33:52destroy all the inhabitants of that land. Break their monuments, and shatter their statues, and lay waste to every exalted thing,

Deuteronomy 7:1“When the Lord your God will have led you to the land, which you will enter so as to possess it, and when he will have destroyed many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than you, and more robust than you,

Deuteronomy 7:16You shall devour all the peoples, which the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall not spare them, neither shall you serve their gods, lest they be your ruin.

Deuteronomy 31:5Therefore, when the Lord will have delivered these to you also, you shall act similarly toward them, just as I have instructed you.

Joshua 9:7“Perhaps instead, you live in the land which ought to be ours by lot, and we would be unable to form a pact with you.”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 20:11-20

Proclamations of War; Directions Concerning War. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. 11 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. 12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it: 13 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou… Read the whole commentary →

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