Deuteronomy 20:11-18

¹¹If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

¹²But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

¹³When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

¹⁴But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city — all its spoil — you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

¹⁵This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

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.

¹⁷For you must devote them to complete destruction — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you,

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.

— Deuteronomy 20:11-18

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Cross References for Deuteronomy 20:11-18

• Joshua 11:14
• Deuteronomy 12:30-31
• Exodus 23:33
• Joshua 8:2
• Numbers 21:2-3
• Deuteronomy 7:1-4
• Joshua 9:27
• Joshua 22:8
• Numbers 33:52
• Joshua 6:17-21

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