申命记 20:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

只是在耶和華你的　神賜給你作產業的這些國民的城市裡，凡有氣息的，連一個你也不可讓他活著；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 这 些 国 民 的 城 ， 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 既 赐 你 为 业 ， 其 中 凡 有 气 息 的 ， 一 个 不 可 存 留 ；

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ When you march up to attack a city, first make them an offer of peace. ¹¹ If they accept your offer and open their gates to you, all the people of that city will become your slaves and work for you. ¹² But if they do not make peace with you and fight you in battle, you should surround that city. ¹³ The Lord your God will give it to you. Then kill all the men with your swords, ¹⁴ and you may take everything else in the city for yourselves. Take the women, children, and animals, and you may use these things the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. ¹⁵ Do this to all the cities that are far away, that do not belong to the nations nearby. ¹⁶ But leave nothing alive in the cities of the land the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁷ Completely destroy these people: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded. ¹⁸ Otherwise, they will teach you what they do for their gods, and if you do these hateful things, you will sin against the Lord your God. ¹⁹ If you surround and attack a city for a long time, trying to capture it, do not destroy its trees with an ax. You can eat the fruit from the trees, but do not cut them down. These trees are not the enemy, so don't make war against them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 7:1-4, Deuteronomy 7:16, Numbers 21:2, Numbers 21:3, Numbers 21:35, Numbers 33:52, Joshua 6:17-21, Joshua 9:24, Joshua 9:27, Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:40, Joshua 11:11, Joshua 11:12, Joshua 11:14

Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:28 - no devoted Numbers 31:15 - General Deuteronomy 2:33 - the Lord Deuteronomy 2:34 - utterly destroyed Deuteronomy 3:6 - we utterly Deuteronomy 7:2 - utterly Deuteronomy 31:5 - according Joshua 6:21 - utterly Joshua 9:7 - how shall Joshua 11:20 - as the Lord Judges 2:2 - And ye shall 1 Samuel 15:3 - utterly destroy Psalms 106:34 - concerning Ezekiel 20:11 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 20:3
But one night God spoke to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You will die. The woman you took is married."

Genesis 20:5
Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister,' and she also said, ‘He is my brother.' I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong."

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.

Genesis 20:8
So early the next morning, Abimelech called all his officers and told them everything that had happened in the dream. They were very afraid.

Genesis 20:9
Then Abimelech called Abraham to him and said, "What have you done to us? What wrong did I do against you? Why did you bring this trouble to my kingdom? You should not have done these things to me.

Genesis 24:65
and asked the servant, "Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?" The servant answered, "That is my master." So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.

Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech warned everyone, "Anyone who touches this man or his wife will be put to death."

Proverbs 12:1
Anyone who loves learning accepts correction, but a person who hates being corrected is stupid.

Proverbs 25:12
A wise warning to someone who will listen is as valuable as gold earrings or fine gold jewelry.

Proverbs 27:5
It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But of the cities of those people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance,.... The cities of the seven nations, six of which are mentioned by name in the next verse:

thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth; the reason of this severity was because of their wickedness, the capital crimes and gross abominations they were guilty of, and for which they deserved to die; and on account whereof they were reserved to this destruction, when the measure of their iniquities was full, such as idolatry, incest, witchcraft, soothsaying, necromancy, &c. see

Leviticus 18:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Directions intended to prevent wanton destruction of life and property in sieges.

Deuteronomy 20:16

Forbearance, however, was not to be shown toward the Canaanite nations, which were to be utterly exterminated (compare Deuteronomy 7:1-4). The command did not apply to beasts as well as men (compare Joshua 11:11, Joshua 11:14).

Deuteronomy 20:19

The parenthesis may he more literally rendered “for man is a tree of the field,” i. e., has his life from the tree of the field, is supported in life by it (compare Deuteronomy 24:6). The Egyptians seem invariably to have cut down the fruit-trees in war.