Deuteronomy 20:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

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  • Num 31:7-9 : 7 They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male. 8 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they killed with the sword. 9 The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
  • Num 31:17-18 : 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18 But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
  • 1 Kgs 11:15-16 : 15 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom 16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
  • Ps 2:6-9 : 6 "Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion." 7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father. 8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, The uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. 9 You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 10 Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth. 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling. 12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
  • Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. 9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
  • Ps 110:1 : 1 > Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
  • Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
  • 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to give relief to you that are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

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  • Deut 20:14-17
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    86%

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

    17but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

  • Deut 13:15-16
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    85%

    15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.

    16You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • Deut 21:10
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    10When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • Deut 20:10-12
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    10When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

    11It shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.

    12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

  • Deut 7:2
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    2and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

  • Judg 21:10-11
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    10The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

    11This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain by man.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    78%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

    18But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
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    3Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

  • Josh 6:21
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    21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Deut 31:4-5
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    75%

    4Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

    5Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

  • Deut 19:1
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    1When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;

  • Deut 2:33-34
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    33Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.

    34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

  • Deut 7:23-24
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    23But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will confuse them with a great confusion, until they be destroyed.

    24He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to perish from under the sky: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have destroyed them.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Num 31:7
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    7They warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they killed every male.

  • Deut 7:16
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    16You shall consume all the peoples who Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

  • Deut 3:6
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    6We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.

  • Josh 11:12
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    12All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

  • Josh 10:19-20
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    74%

    19but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.

    20It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • Exod 32:27
    74%

    27He said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • Josh 11:14
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    14All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

  • Num 25:17
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    17Vex the Midianites, and strike them;

  • Deut 13:9
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    9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Ezek 9:5-6
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    5To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city after him, and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity;

    6kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

  • Josh 10:39
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    39and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

  • Lev 26:7
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    7You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

  • Deut 20:20
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    20Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.

  • Deut 12:29
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    29When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

  • Deut 25:19
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    19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.

  • Deut 3:18
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    18I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

  • Josh 10:30
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    30and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 10:35
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    35and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.