Deuteronomy 20:11

Easy To Read Version

If they accept your offer and open their gates, then all the people in that city will become your slaves and be forced to work for you.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:1

Hiram was the king of Tyre. Hiram had always been David’s friend. So when Hiram heard that Solomon had become the new king after David, he sent his servants to Solomon.

2 Kings 6:22

Elisha answered, “No, don’t kill them. You would not kill people that you captured in war with your sword and with your bow {and arrows}. Give the Aramean army some bread and water. Let them eat and drink. Then let them go home to their master.”

Psalm 120:7

I said I want peace,\par so they want war.\par

Luke 19:14

But the people in the kingdom hated the man. So the people sent a group to follow the man to the other country. In the other country, this group said, ‘We don’t want that man to be our king!’

Deuteronomy 20:10

“When you go to attack a city, you must first offer peace to the people there.

Deuteronomy 20:12

But if the city refuses to make peace with you and fights against you, then you should surround the city.

Joshua 9:27

Joshua made the people of Gibeon become slaves of the people of Israel. They cut wood and carried water for the people of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. Those people are still slaves today.

Joshua 9:8

The Hivite men said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Joshua 9:9

The men answered, “We are your servants. We have come from a faraway country. We came because we heard of the great power of the Lord your God. We heard about the things he did. We heard about everything he did in Egypt.

Judges 1:28

Later the people of Israel grew stronger and forced the Canaanite people to work as slaves for them. But the people of Israel could not force all of the Canaanite people to leave their land.