Joshua 6:21

New American Bible - revised edition

They observed the ban by putting to the sword all living creatures in the city: men and women, young and old, as well as oxen, sheep and donkeys.

Cross References

1 Kings 20:42

He said to him: “The Lord says, Because you have set free the man I put under the ban, your life shall pay for his life, your people for his people.”

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon; Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you, has shattered your strongholds.

Deuteronomy 13:16

you shall put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, placing the city and all that is in it, even its livestock, under the ban.

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his cities and put every city under the ban, men, women and children; we left no survivor.

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 10:28

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 10:39

capturing it with its king and all its cities. They put them to the sword and put under the ban every person in it, leaving no survivors. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Hebron, as well as to Libnah and its king.

Joshua 11:11

He also struck down with the sword every person there, carrying out the ban, till none was left alive. Hazor itself he burned.

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 8:2

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king—except that you may take its spoil and livestock as plunder. Set an ambush behind the city.

Joshua 8:22

Since those in the city came out to intercept them, Ai’s army was hemmed in by Israelites on both sides, who cut them down without any fugitives or survivors

Joshua 9:3

On hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, the inhabitants of Gibeon

Revelation 18:21

A mighty angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone and threw it into the sea and said: “With such force will Babylon the great city be thrown down, and will never be found again.

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.”

1 Samuel 15:8

He took Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but the rest of the people he destroyed by the sword, putting them under the ban.