Deuteronomy 20:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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 slew him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not one survivor left to him; and they possessed his land.

Numbers 31:17

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

Numbers 33:52

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

Deuteronomy 20:15

Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

Deuteronomy 20:17

but you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded;

Deuteronomy 24:4

then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:5

And the Lord will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

Furthermore the Lord was angry with me on your account, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And you shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

When Joshua and the men of Israel had finished slaying them with a very great slaughter, until they were wiped out, and when the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

Joshua 10:28

And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it, he left none 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 none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

Joshua 11:14

And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the people of Israel took for their booty; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any that breathed.

Joshua 6:24

And they burned the city with fire, and all within it; only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:25

And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 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 bidden; 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 from before you; so we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and did this thing.

Joshua 9:27

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

Joshua 9:7

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’ ”