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The procedure for preparing for war. – Benefits regarding the performance of military service. - Conducting an offensive war.
Deut.20:16. And in the cities of these nations, which the Lord your God is giving you to possess, you shall not leave a single soul alive.
Deut.20:17. But put them to destruction: the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, [and the Girgashites,] as the Lord your God commanded you,
Deut.20:18. lest they teach you to do the same abominations as they did to their gods, and lest you sin against the Lord your God.
“Do not leave a single soul alive” - in order to avoid the temptation of idolatry (v. 18). Wed. Ref. 23:32–33; Deut 7:2, 9:3, 12:2, 3.
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