Deuteronomy 20:10-18
New King James Version
10 “When you go near a city to fight against it, (A)then proclaim an offer of peace to it. 11 And it shall be that if they accept your offer of peace, and open to you, then all the people who are found in it shall be placed under tribute to you, and serve you. 12 Now if the city will not make peace with you, but war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, (B)you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword. 14 But the women, the little ones, (C)the livestock, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall plunder for yourself; and (D)you shall eat the enemies’ plunder which the Lord your God gives you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
16 “But (E)of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, 18 lest (F)they teach you to do according to all their [a]abominations which they have done for their gods, and you (G)sin against the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 20:18 detestable things
Deuteronomy 20:10-18
Lexham English Bible
10 “When you approach a city to fight against it, you must offer it peace.[a] 11 And then[b] if they accept your terms of peace[c] and they surrender to you,[d] and then[e] all the people inhabiting it[f] shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you. 12 But if they do not accept your terms of peace[g] and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it.[h] 13 And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the edge[i] of the sword. 14 Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals[j] and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the far[k] cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located nearby.[l]
16 But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes.[m] 17 Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites[n] and the Amorites,[o] the Canaanites[p] and the Perizzites,[q] the Hivites,[r] and the Jebusites,[s] just as Yahweh your God has commanded you, 18 so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God.
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- Deuteronomy 20:10 Literally “you should call it for peace”
- Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “And it will happen”
- Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “if peace they reply to you”
- Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “they open to you”
- Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “and it will happen”
- Deuteronomy 20:11 Literally “being found in it”
- Deuteronomy 20:12 Literally “not they make peace with you”
- Deuteronomy 20:12 That is, the city
- Deuteronomy 20:13 Literally “mouth”
- Deuteronomy 20:14 Hebrew “animal”
- Deuteronomy 20:15 Or “distant”
- Deuteronomy 20:15 Literally “here”
- Deuteronomy 20:16 Or “is alive”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Hittite”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Amorite”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Canaanite”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Perizzite”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Hivite”
- Deuteronomy 20:17 Hebrew “Jebusite”
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