Deuteronomy 20:10-14

Laws Concerning Warfare

¹⁰ "When you draw near to a city to fight against it, _p offer terms of peace to it. ¹¹ And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. ¹² But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. ¹³ And when the Lord your God gives it into your hand, _q you shall put all its males to the sword, ¹⁴ _r but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you _s shall take as plunder for yourselves. And _t you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the Lord your God has given you.

1. Cross References
   Judges 21:13
   Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.
   Deuteronomy 2:26
   So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying.
   2 Samuel 20:18
   Then she said, "They used to say in former times, 'Let them but ask counsel at Abel,' and so they settled a matter.
   2 Samuel 20:20
   Joab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!
   
2. Cross References
   Numbers 31:7
   They warred against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every male.
   
3. Cross References
   Numbers 31:9
   And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.
   
4. Cross References
   Joshua 8:2
   And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.
   
5. Cross References
   Joshua 22:8
   He said to them, "Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.