Deuteronomy 20:11
If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably.
12But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;
Cross References
Joshua 9:9And they said, Your servants are come from a very far country in the name of the Lord your God: for we have heard his name, and all that he did in Egypt,
Joshua 9:27-29 And Joshua made them in that day hewers of wood and drawers of water to the whole congregation, and for the altar of God: therefore the inhabitants of Gabaon became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God until this day, even for the place which the Lord should choose. + 9:27-29 The following verses are additions to Brenton's text from the alexandrine codex. Verses after 33 appear only in the Hebrew text.
Joshua 16:10And Ephraim did not destroy the Chananite who lived in Gazer; and the Chananite lived in Ephraim until this day, until Pharao the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burnt it with fire; and the Chananites, and Pherezites, and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharao gave them for a dowry to his daughter.
Judges 1:30And Zabulon did not drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana: and the Chananite lived in the midst of them, and became tributary to them. + 1:30 Gr. him, sc. Zabulon.
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 →