Deuteronomy 20:11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the people in it shall serve you at forced labor.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:1

Now King Hiram of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father; for Hiram had always been a friend to David.

2 Kings 6:22

He answered, “No! Did you capture with your sword and your bow those whom you want to kill? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink; and let them go to their master.”

Psalm 120:7

I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Luke 19:14

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Deuteronomy 20:10

When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.

Deuteronomy 20:12

If it does not submit to you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;

Joshua 16:10

They did not, however, drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: so the Canaanites have lived within Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.

Joshua 9:27

But on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place that he should choose.

Joshua 9:8

They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”

Joshua 9:9

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt,

Judges 1:28

When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not in fact drive them out.