Deuteronomy 20:16

Of these you⌃ shall not take any thing alive;

LXX2012 (US English)

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

15Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land.

17but you⌃ shall surely curse them, the Chettite, and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergesite; as the Lord your God commanded you:

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Cross References

Numbers 21:2And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, If you will deliver this people into my power, I will devote it and its cities to you.

Numbers 33:52And you⌃ shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and you⌃ shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images you⌃ shall destroy, and you⌃ shall demolish all their pillars.

Deuteronomy 7:1And when the Lord your God shall bring you into the land, into which you go to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before you, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

Deuteronomy 7:16And you shall eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord your God gives you; your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their gods; for this is an offense to you.

Deuteronomy 31:5And the Lord has delivered + 31:5 i.e. the nations. them to you; and you⌃ shall do to them, as I charged you.

Joshua 9:7And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhaean, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how should I make a covenant 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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