Deuteronomy 20:16 Bible Handbook

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◄ 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.

Chapter Outline

1. The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle
5. The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war
10. How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace
16. What cities must be devoted
19. Trees must not be destroyed in the siege

Timeline

1407 BC	Moses' Summary of Israel's History	Deuteronomy 1 - 4
1406 BC	Recapitulation of the Law	Deuteronomy 4:44 - 31
1406 BC	The Song of Moses	Deuteronomy 32
1406 BC	Moses Blesses the Twelve Tribes	Deuteronomy 32:48
1406 BC	Blessings of Moses	Deuteronomy 33
1406 BC	The Death of Moses	Deuteronomy 34

People

Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Hivite, Hivites, Jebusites, Moses, Perizzites

Places

Beth-baal-peor, Egypt

Topics

Alive, Anything, Breathes, Breatheth, Breathing, Cities, Death, Gives, Giveth, Giving, Heritage, Howbeit, Inheritance, Kept, Leave, Nations, Nothing, Peoples, Save, Towns

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Parallel Verses

NASB: "Only 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.

KJV: 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:

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