¹¹ Now it will be that if it ^[a]agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your ^(A)forced labor and shall serve you. ¹² However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³ And Yahweh your God shall give it into your hand, ^(B)and you shall strike all the males in it with the edge of the sword. ¹⁴ Only the women and the little ones and ^(C)the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and you shall consume the spoil of your enemies which Yahweh your God has given you. ¹⁵ Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations ^[b]nearby. ^16 (D)Only in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.

^8 (A)Then the sons of Israel carried away captive of ^(B)their brothers 200,000 women, sons, and daughters; and they plundered also a great deal of spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria. ⁹ But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and ^(C)he went out before the army which came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because of the ^(D)wrath of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have killed them in a rage ^(E)which has even reached heaven. ¹⁰ So now you are ^[a]intending to ^(F)subdue for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem for male and female slaves. Surely, do you not have your own matters of guilt against Yahweh your God? ¹¹ So now, listen to me and return the captives ^(G)whom you carried away from your brothers, ^(H)for the burning anger of Yahweh is against you.” ¹² Then some of the heads of the sons of Ephraim—Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai—arose against those who were coming from the engagement of the army, ¹³ and said to them, “You must not bring the captives in here, for you are ^[b]intending to bring upon us guilt against Yahweh adding to our sins and our guilt; for our guilt is great so that His burning anger is against Israel.” ¹⁴ So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly. ¹⁵ Then ^(I)the men who were designated by name arose, took hold of the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil; and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and ^(J)gave them drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, ^(K)the city of palm trees, to their brothers; then they returned to Samaria.