Deuteronomy 20:13

until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

In Context

12But if they will not listen to you, but wage war against you, you shall invest it;

14except the women and the stuff: and all the cattle, and whatever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:17Now then kill every male in all the spoil, kill every woman, who has known the lying with man.

Psalms 2:6But I have been made king by him on Sion his holy mountain, 1

Psalms 110:1I will give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation. 1

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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