Deuteronomy 20:12
If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.
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9Then, when the officers have finished speaking, they must appoint unit commanders to lead the troops.
10When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.
11If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.
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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 20:19-202 verses76%
19If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, you must not chop down its trees, for you may eat fruit from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it!
20However, you may chop down any tree you know is not suitable for food, and you may use it to build siege works against the city that is making war with you until that city falls.
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52They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse– those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the LORD your God has given you.
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10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
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15you 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.
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.
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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!
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9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
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20Then Moses replied,“If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,
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2Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp against it! Post soldiers outside it and station battering rams around it.
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1Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry and troops who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
2As you move forward for battle, the priest will approach and say to the soldiers,
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19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.
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19No city made peace with the Israelites(except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,
20for the LORD determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
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43For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.
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7Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.
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40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
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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,
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17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
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20if the king becomes angry and asks you,‘Why did you go so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the wall?
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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.
17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”
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5The LORD will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.
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29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.
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19They will attack you but they will not be able to overcome you, for I will be with you to rescue you,” says the LORD.
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3I will lay siege to you on all sides; I will besiege you with troops; I will raise siege works against you.
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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
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20I will make you as strong as a wall to these people, a fortified wall of bronze. They will attack you, but they will not be able to overcome you. For I will be with you to rescue you and deliver you,” says the LORD.
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7You will pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword.
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18He ordered,“Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive.”
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10Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.
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6And if a peace-loving person is there, your peace will remain on him, but if not, it will return to you.
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14Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
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24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
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17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,
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4for the LORD your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”
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25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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30But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”
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14The LORD will fight for you, and you can be still.”
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28So now assemble the rest of the army and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.”