15This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.


In Context

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.

15 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.

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

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

Deuteronomy 20:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:15So shalt thou do to all cities that are at a great distance from thee, and are not of these cities which thou shalt receive in possession.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities that are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shalt thou do to all the cities which are very distant from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:15So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.