Deuteronomy 20:16

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

Cross References (13)

  • Joshua 11:14 (6)

    The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the swo

  • Numbers 21:2–3 (5)

    So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destru

  • Numbers 33:52 (4)

    you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demol

  • Joshua 6:17–21 (4)

    Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those w

  • Deuteronomy 7:1–4 (4)

    When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nati

  • Joshua 11:11–12 (3)

    The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Jos

  • Numbers 21:35 (3)

    So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of h

  • Exodus 23:31–33 (3)

    And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates.

  • Deuteronomy 7:16 (3)

    You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship th

  • Joshua 10:28 (3)

    On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in

  • Joshua 10:40 (3)

    So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their

  • Joshua 9:27 (2)

    On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and fo

  • Joshua 9:24 (2)

    The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give