Deuteronomy 20:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But in the cities of these people which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;

Common English Bible

¹⁶ But in the case of any of the cities of these peoples—the ones the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance—you must not spare any living thing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But of those cities that shall be given thee thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Deuteronomy 20:16 Cross References

Numbers 21:35

So they killed him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left, and they took possession of his land.

Numbers 31:17

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

Numbers 33:52

you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 20:15

Thus you shall treat all the towns that are very far from you, which are not towns of these nations here.

Deuteronomy 20:17

Indeed, you shall annihilate them—the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as the Lord your God has commanded,

Deuteronomy 24:4

her first husband, who sent her away, is not permitted to take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that would be abhorrent to the Lord, and you shall not bring guilt on the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will give them over to you, and you shall deal with them in full accord with the command that I have given to you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

“The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he vowed that I should not cross the Jordan and that I should not enter the good land that the Lord your God is giving for your possession.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

When Joshua and the Israelites had finished inflicting a very great blow on them, until they were wiped out, and when the survivors had entered into the fortified towns,

Joshua 10:28

Joshua took Makkedah on that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it; he left no one remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua defeated the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings; he left no one remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

All the spoil of these towns and the livestock the Israelites plundered for themselves, but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.

Joshua 6:24

They burned down the city and everything in it; only the silver and gold and the vessels of bronze and iron they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:25

The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:8

And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the Lord has ordered; see, I have commanded you.”

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.

Joshua 9:27

But on that day Joshua made them woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place that he should choose.

Joshua 9:7

But the Israelites said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”