Deuteronomy 20:11

New American Bible - revised edition

If it agrees to your terms of peace and lets you in, all the people to be found in it shall serve you in forced labor.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:1

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, down to the border of Egypt; they paid Solomon tribute and served him as long as he lived.

2 Kings 6:22

Elisha replied, “You must not kill them. Do you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword or bow? Serve them a meal. Let them eat and drink, and then go back to their master.”

Psalm 120:7

When I speak of peace, they are for war.

Luke 19:14

His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’

Deuteronomy 20:10

When you draw near a city to attack it, offer it terms of peace.

Deuteronomy 20:12

But if it refuses to make peace with you and instead joins battle with you, lay siege to it,

Joshua 16:10

But they did not dispossess the Canaanites living in Gezer; they live within Ephraim to the present day, though they have been put to forced labor.

Joshua 9:27

on that day he made them, as they still are, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of the Lord, in the place the Lord would choose.

Joshua 9:8

But they answered Joshua, “We are your servants.” Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

Joshua 9:9

They answered him, “Your servants have come from a far-off land, because of the fame of the Lord, your God. For we have heard reports of all that he did in Egypt

Judges 1:28

When Israel grew stronger, they conscripted the Canaanites as laborers, but did not actually drive them out.