Numbers 31:15

New Century Version

He asked them, “Why did you let the women live?

Cross References

Jeremiah 48:10

A curse will be on anyone who doesn’t do what the Lord says, and a curse will be on anyone who holds back his sword from killing.

Ezekiel 9:6

Kill and destroy old men, young men and women, little children, and older women, but don’t touch any who have the mark on them. Start at my Temple.” So they started with the elders who were in front of the Temple.

Numbers 31:14

Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders over a thousand men, and those over a hundred men, who returned from war.

Deuteronomy 2:34

We captured all his cities at that time and completely destroyed them, as well as the men, women, and children. We left no one alive.

Deuteronomy 20:13

The Lord your God will give it to you. Then kill all the men with your swords,

Deuteronomy 20:14

and you may take everything else in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use these things the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of these areas: the mountains, southern Canaan, the western hills, and the slopes. The Lord, the God of Israel, had told Joshua to completely destroy all the people as an offering to the Lord, so he left no one alive in those places.

Joshua 11:14

The people of Israel kept for themselves everything they found in the cities, including all the animals. But they killed all the people there; they left no one alive.

Joshua 6:21

They completely destroyed with the sword every living thing in the city—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Joshua 8:25

All the people of Ai died that day, twelve thousand men and women.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go, attack the Amalekites and destroy everything they own as an offering to the Lord. Don’t let anything live. Put to death men and women, children and small babies, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”