Deuteronomy 13:15-16

New International Version

¹⁵ you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,^[a](A) both its people and its livestock.^{(B) 16} You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town^(C) and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God.^(D) That town is to remain a ruin^(E) forever, never to be rebuilt,