12If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city.


In Context

9 When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.

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

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

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

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

14 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 20:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:12But if they will not make peace, and shall begin war against thee, thou shalt besiege it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will not make peace with thee, but will make war with thee, then thou shalt besiege it;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:12'And if it doth not make peace with thee, and hath made with thee war, then thou hast laid siege against it,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:12And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it: