Massacre

“When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.”

“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.”

“At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.”

“We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.”

“When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.”

“The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.”

“Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.”

“On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.”