Deuteronomy 20:13
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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Deuteronomy 20:13
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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Deuteronomy 20:10
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
Deuteronomy 20:11
It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you.
Deuteronomy 20:12
If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.
Deuteronomy 20:13
When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
Deuteronomy 20:14
but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 20:15
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
Deuteronomy 20:17
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
2 Kings 6:22
He answered, “You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, then go to their master.”
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
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Numbers 31:7
They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
Numbers 31:8
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.
1 Kings 11:15
For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
1 Kings 11:16
(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),
Numbers 24:19
Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.”
Judges 21:11
This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man.”
1 Samuel 27:9
David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.
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Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”
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