Deuteronomy 13:15

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you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

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  • Deut 7:2 : 2 and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!
  • Exod 22:20 : 20 “Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.
  • Lev 27:28 : 28 Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord“‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the LORD from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the LORD.
  • Deut 2:34 : 34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
  • Exod 23:24 : 24 “You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
  • Josh 6:17-21 : 17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the LORD; only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent. 18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for God. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster. 19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the LORD. They must go into the LORD’s treasury.” 20 The rams’ horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. 21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.
  • Josh 6:24 : 24 But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.
  • Judg 20:48 : 48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.
  • Rev 17:16 : 16 The ten horns that you saw, and the beast– these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire.
  • Rev 18:18-24 : 18 and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up,“Who is like the great city?” 19 And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,“Woe, Woe, O great city– in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth– because in a single hour she has been destroyed!” 20 (Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!) 21 Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,“With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again! 22 And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again. 23 Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells! 24 The blood of the saints and prophets was found in her, along with the blood of all those who had been killed on the earth.”
  • Rev 19:2-3 : 2 because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!” 3 Then a second time the crowd shouted,“Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

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  • Deut 20:12-17
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    12If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

    13The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.

    14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.

    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

    16Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

    17Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,

  • Deut 13:16-17
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    16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

    17You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

  • Josh 6:21
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    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • Josh 11:11-12
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    11They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword– no one who breathed remained– and burned Hazor.

    12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and he delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy!

  • Deut 13:14
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    14You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,

  • Judg 21:11
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    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

  • Num 33:52
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    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”

  • Josh 11:14
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    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
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    8He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

  • Ezek 9:5-7
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    5While I listened, he said to the others,“Go through the city after him and strike people down; do not let your eye pity nor spare anyone!

    6Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.

    7He said to them,“Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

  • Deut 12:2-3
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    2You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods– on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.

    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

  • Josh 10:39
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    39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

  • Josh 10:37
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    37They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

  • Deut 13:9
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    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

  • Josh 10:35
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    35That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

  • Mic 5:14
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    14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.

  • Jer 50:26
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    26Come from far away and attack Babylonia! Open up the places where she stores her grain! Pile her up in ruins! Destroy her completely! Do not leave anyone alive!

  • Josh 8:8
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    8When you capture the city, set it on fire in keeping with the Lord’s message. See, I have given you orders.”

  • Deut 13:12
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    12Punishment of Community Idolatry Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you as a place to live, that

  • Deut 7:16
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    16Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

  • Deut 2:34
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    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

  • Deut 31:4
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    4The LORD will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

  • Deut 7:5
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    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • Num 31:10
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    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Jer 50:21
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    21The LORD says,“Attack the land of Merathaim and the people who live in Pekod! Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them! Do just as I have commanded you!

  • Mic 5:11
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    11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
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    18The LORD sent you on a campaign saying,‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’

  • Ezek 14:17
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    17“Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say,‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

  • Jer 21:6
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    6I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.

  • Ezek 7:15
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    15The sword is outside; pestilence and famine are inside the house. Whoever is in the open field will die by the sword, and famine and pestilence will consume everyone in the city.

  • Num 31:17
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    17Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has been intimate with a man in bed.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

  • Deut 7:23
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    23The LORD your God will give them over to you; he will throw them into a great panic until they are destroyed.