Deuteronomy 20:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."

Deuteronomy 20:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace.

Deuteronomy 20:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you.

Deuteronomy 20:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.

Deuteronomy 20:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.

Deuteronomy 20:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.

Deuteronomy 20:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

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 20:16   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

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

Deuteronomy 20:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

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

Deuteronomy 20:18   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 20:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them?

Deuteronomy 20:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 20)

However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Deuteronomy 21:1   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,

Deuteronomy 21:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

Deuteronomy 21:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.

Deuteronomy 21:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person." Then the bloodshed will be atoned for,

Deuteronomy 21:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 21:10   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

Deuteronomy 21:11   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

Deuteronomy 21:13   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

Deuteronomy 21:14   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Deuteronomy 21:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 21:23   (Read all of Deuteronomy 21)

you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.