Deuteronomy 20:16

But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.

17But shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

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Cross References

Numbers 21:2But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: It thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

Numbers 33:52Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

Deuteronomy 7:1When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

Deuteronomy 7:16Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

Deuteronomy 31:5Therefore when the Lord shall have delivered these also to you, you shall do in like manner to them as I have commanded you,

Joshua 9:7Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league 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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