Deuteronomy 20:16

New English Translation

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

Cross References

Numbers 21:35

So they defeated Og, his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, and they possessed his land.

Numbers 31:17

Now therefore kill every boy, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 20:15

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 20:17

Instead you must utterly annihilate them – the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 24:4

her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

But the Lord became angry with me because of you and vowed that I would never cross the Jordan nor enter the good land that he is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Joshua 6:24

But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Joshua 8:25

Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

Joshua 8:8

When you capture the city, set it on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.”

Joshua 9:24

They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Joshua 9:27

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

Joshua 9:7

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”