12. But if the city refuses to make peace with you and fights against you, you should surround the city.
13. And when the Lord your God lets you take the city, you must kill all the men in it.
14. But you may take for yourselves the women, the children, the cattle, and everything else in the city. You may use all these things. The Lord your God has given these things to you.
15. That is what you must do to all the cities that are very far from you—the cities that are not in the land where you will live.
16. “But when you take cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must kill everyone.
17. You must completely destroy all the people—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. The Lord your God has commanded you to do this.