Bible verse
But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
Deuteronomy 20:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Deuteronomy 20.
8 Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.
10 When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace.
11 If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
12 But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.
13 When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
14 But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.
15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
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.
KJV
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
ASV
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
ERV
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
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