Deuteronomy 20:16 (KJV)

Thou and Ye

thy, thee, thou one person

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

Peace to be offered, What cities were to be devotedThe Israelites are here directed about the nations on whom they made war. Let this show God's grace in dealing with sinners. He proclaims peace, and...

Thompson Chains

Destruction (2)See the chain from Isaiah 34:2 · 5 links

Cross References

Joshua 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Numbers 21:2–3 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. …
Numbers 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Deuteronomy 7:1–4 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; …
Exodus 23:31–33 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. …
Numbers 21:35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Deuteronomy 7:16 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Joshua 6:17–21 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. …
Joshua 9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Joshua 9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Joshua 10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
Joshua 11:11–12 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. …

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Topics

Massacre Authorized by Moses
War Of extermination

Timeline

Timeline of the Bible1491–1451 BC · Israel in the Wilderness

Bible Dictionary

LordThere are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered.
God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Hebrew and Strong’s

But of the cities רַק raq Affirmation מֵעָרֵי mēʿārê עִיר Noun · feminine plural construct · with preposition
of these people הָעַמִּים hāʿammîm עַם Noun · masculine plural · with the
which the LORD הָאֵלֶּה hāʾēllê Pronoun · with the אֲשֶׁר ʾăšer Relative יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
thy God אֱלֹהֶיךָ ʾĕlōhêkā אֱלֹהִים Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: second person masculine singular
doth give נֹתֵן nōtēn נָתַן Verb · qal active participle, masculine singular
thee for an inheritance לְךָ lĕkā Preposition · with suffix: second person masculine singular נַחֲלָה naḥălâ נַחֲלָה Noun · feminine singular
thou shalt save alive לֹא lōʾ Negative תְחַיֶּה tĕḥayyê חָיָה Verb · piel imperfect, second person masculine singular
nothing that breatheth כָּל kol Noun · masculine singular construct נְשָׁמָה nĕšāmâ נְשָׁמָה Noun · feminine singular

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