Deuteronomy 20:16

New American Bible - revised edition

But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, you shall not leave a single soul alive.

Cross References

Numbers 21:35

So they struck him down with his sons and all his forces, until not a survivor was left to him, and they took possession of his land.

Numbers 31:17

Now kill, therefore, every male among the children and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

Numbers 33:52

dispossess all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 20:15

That is how you shall deal with any city at a considerable distance from you, which does not belong to these nations here.

Deuteronomy 20:17

You must put them all under the ban—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—just as the Lord, your God, has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 24:4

then her former husband, who dismissed her, may not again take her as his wife after she has become defiled. That would be an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring such guilt upon the land the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 31:5

When, therefore, the Lord delivers them up to you, you shall deal with them according to the whole commandment which I have given you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

But the Lord was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan nor enter the good land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall consume all the peoples which the Lord, your God, is giving over to you. You are not to look on them with pity, nor serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

Once Joshua and the Israelites had finally inflicted the last blows in this very great slaughter, and the survivors had escaped from them into the fortified cities,

Joshua 10:28

Makkedah, too, Joshua captured and put to the sword at that time. He put the city, its king, and every person in it under the ban, leaving no survivors. Thus he did to the king of Makkedah what he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

Joshua conquered the entire land; the mountain regions, the Negeb, the Shephelah, and the mountain slopes, with all their kings. He left no survivors, but put under the ban every living being, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

All the spoil and livestock of these cities the Israelites took as plunder; but the people they put to the sword, until they had destroyed the last of them, leaving none alive.

Joshua 6:24

The city itself they burned with all that was in it; but the silver, gold, and articles of bronze and iron they placed in the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Joshua 8:25

There fell that day a total of twelve thousand men and women, the entire population of Ai.

Joshua 8:8

When you have taken the city, set it on fire in obedience to the Lord’s command. These are my orders to you.”

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Your servants were fully informed of how the Lord, your God, commanded Moses his servant that you be given the entire land and that all its inhabitants be destroyed before you. Since, therefore, at your advance, we were in great fear for our lives, we acted as we did.

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 9:7

But the Israelites replied to the Hivites, “You may be living in land that is ours. How, then, can we make a covenant with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Go, now, attack Amalek, and put under the ban everything he has. Do not spare him; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.”