Deuteronomy 20:16

Modern English Version

But of the cities of these people, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

Cross References

Numbers 21:35

So they killed him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was not a survivor left to him alive, and they possessed his land.

Numbers 31:17

So now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by lying with him.

Numbers 33:52

then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images, and destroy all their high places,

Deuteronomy 20:15

Thus you are to do to all the cities which are far away, which are not the cities of these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 20:17

But you shall completely destroy them: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 24:4

her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, since she is defiled, for that is abomination before the Lord, and you must not bring sin on the land, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will give them up before you, so that you may do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

Furthermore, the Lord was angry with me because of you and swore that I should not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not go into that good land which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

When Joshua and the Israelites had finished striking them with overwhelming force until they were completely defeated, the survivors escaped from them and went back to their fortified cities.

Joshua 10:28

Joshua took Makkedah that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He destroyed it and all life within it. He did not leave any survivors. He did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua attacked the whole land: the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the mountain slopes, and all their kings. No survivor was left. He destroyed all who breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites plundered all the goods and the livestock of these cities, but they struck all the people with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them. They did not spare anyone who breathed.

Joshua 6:24

They burned the city and everything in it with fire. Only the silver, the gold, the bronze and iron articles they gave to the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:25

All who had fallen that day, men and women, numbered twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:8

When you have seized the city, set it on fire. Act according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you.”

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “It was told to your slaves that the Lord your God commanded Moses His servant to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. So we were very afraid for our lives, and we did this thing.

Joshua 9:27

That day he made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and the altar of the Lord, even to this day, at the place He would choose.

Joshua 9:7

Then the Israelites said to these Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us, so how could we make a pact with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”