Deuteronomy 20:17

For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

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In The King James Version

But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

In Context

16However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

18so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—

Isaiah 34:5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.

Jeremiah 50:35A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men.

Revelation 19:18so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone both slave and free, both small and great.”

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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