Context 16Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. 17But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the LORD your God. 19When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man, that it should be besieged by you? 20Only the trees which you know are not fruit trees you shall destroy and cut down, that you may construct siegeworks against the city that is making war with you until it falls. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionBut of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; Douay-Rheims Bible But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live: Darby Bible Translation But of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, English Revised Version But of the cities of these peoples, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: Webster's Bible Translation But of the cities of these people which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: World English Bible But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; Young's Literal Translation Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing; Library 'Fit, Though Few''Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture Sharon. Caphar Lodim. The Village of those of Lydda. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South Deuteronomy Links Deuteronomy 20:16 NIV • Deuteronomy 20:16 NLT • Deuteronomy 20:16 ESV • Deuteronomy 20:16 NASB • Deuteronomy 20:16 KJV • Deuteronomy 20:16 Bible Apps • Deuteronomy 20:16 Parallel • Bible Hub |