Deuteronomy 20
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Deuteronomy 20:10-18

10“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall 1offer it terms of peace. 11And if it 2agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your 3forced labor and serve you. 12However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, 4you shall strike all the 5men in it with the edge of the sword. 14However, the women, the children, 6the animals, and everything that is in the city, all of its spoils, you shall take as plunder for yourself; and you shall 7use the spoils of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you. 15This is what you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations 8nearby. 169Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave anything that breathes alive. 17Instead, you shall 10utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18so that they will not teach you to do 1112all the same detestable practices of theirs which they have done for their gods, 13by which you would 14sin against the Lord your God.

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Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 20:10 Lit call to it for peace ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 20:11 Lit answers peace to you ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 20:11 1 Kin 9:21 ↩
  4. 4. Deuteronomy 20:13 Num 31:7 ↩
  5. 5. Deuteronomy 20:13 Lit males ↩
  6. 6. Deuteronomy 20:14 Josh 8:2 ↩
  7. 7. Deuteronomy 20:14 Lit eat ↩
  8. 8. Deuteronomy 20:15 Lit here ↩
  9. 9. Deuteronomy 20:16 Ex 23:31-33; Num 21:2, 3; Deut 7:1-5; Josh 11:14 ↩
  10. 10. Deuteronomy 20:17 Or put them under the ban ↩
  11. 11. Deuteronomy 20:18 Lit according to all the detestable ↩
  12. 12. Deuteronomy 20:18 Ex 34:12-16; Deut 7:4; 9:5; 12:30, 31 ↩
  13. 13. Deuteronomy 20:18 Lit and you would ↩
  14. 14. Deuteronomy 20:18 Ex 23:33; 2 Kin 21:3-15; Ps 106:34-41 ↩

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