Deuteronomy 20:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“But when you take cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must kill everyone.

Cross References

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites kept for themselves all the things and all the animals they found in the cities. But they killed all the people there. They left no one alive.

Numbers 33:52

You will take the land from the people you find there. You must destroy all of their carved statues and idols. You must destroy all of their high places.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills, and the eastern foothills. The Lord, the God of Israel, had told Joshua to kill all the people, so Joshua did not leave anyone alive in those places.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. He killed the king and the people in that city. No one was left alive. Joshua did the same thing to the king of Makkedah that he had done to the king of Jericho.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people the Lord your God helps you defeat. Don’t feel sorry for them, and don’t worship their gods! They will trap you—they will ruin your life.

Numbers 21:35

So the Israelites defeated Og and his army. They killed him, his sons, and all his army. Then the Israelites took all his land.

Joshua 9:27

He made them slaves of the Israelites. They cut wood and carried water for the Israelites and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. They are still slaves today.

Joshua 9:24

The Gibeonites answered, “We lied to you because we were afraid you would kill us. We heard that God commanded his servant Moses to give you all this land. And God told you to kill all the people who lived in this land. That is why we lied to you.

Numbers 31:17

Now, kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations with a man.

Deuteronomy 20:15

That is what you must do to all the cities that are very far from you—the cities that are not in the land where you will live.

Deuteronomy 20:17

You must completely destroy all the people—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Lord your God has commanded you to do this.

Joshua 6:24

Then the Israelites burned the whole city and everything in it except for the things made from silver, gold, bronze, and iron. They put these things in the Lord’s treasury.

Joshua 8:8

“You must do what the Lord says. Watch me and I will give you the command to attack the city. When you have taken control of the city, burn it.”

Joshua 8:25

All the people of Ai died that day; there were 12,000 men and women.

Joshua 10:20

So Joshua and the Israelites killed the enemy. But some of them were able to go to their cities that had tall walls around them and hide. These men were not killed.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go fight against the Amalekites. You must completely destroy the Amalekites and everything that belongs to them. Don’t let anything live; you must kill all the men and women and all of their children and little babies. You must kill all of their cattle and sheep and all of their camels and donkeys.’”

Deuteronomy 4:21

“The Lord was angry with me because of you. He swore that I could not go across the Jordan River into the good land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will help you defeat these nations. But you must do to them everything I told you to do.

Joshua 9:7

The men of Israel said to these Hivite men, “Maybe you are trying to trick us. Maybe you live near us. We cannot make a peace agreement with you until we know where you are from.”