Deuteronomy 20:16

New International Version

However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Cross References

Numbers 21:35

So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.

Numbers 31:17

Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man,

Numbers 33:52

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

Deuteronomy 20:15

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Deuteronomy 20:17

Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 24:4

then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 31:5

The Lord will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you.

Deuteronomy 4:21

The Lord was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Joshua 10:20

So Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely, but a few survivors managed to reach their fortified cities.

Joshua 10:28

That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:40

So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua 11:14

The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed.

Joshua 6:24

Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Joshua 8:25

Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:8

When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the Lord has commanded. See to it; you have my orders.”

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Your servants were clearly told how the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to wipe out all its inhabitants from before you. So we feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

Joshua 9:27

That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would choose. And that is what they are to this day.

Joshua 9:7

The Israelites said to the Hivites, “But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ”