genocide

²‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: I have taken account of all that Amalek has done to Israel, how he stood against him in the way, when he ascended from Egypt. ³Now therefore, go and strike Amalek, and demolish all that is his. You shall not spare him, and you shall not covet anything out of the things that are his. Instead, kill from man even to woman, and little ones as well as infants, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

³⁴And we seized all his cities at that time, putting to death their inhabitants: men as well as women and children. We left nothing of them,

²¹And they put to death all who were in it, from man even to woman, from infant even to elder. Likewise, the oxen and sheep and donkeys, they struck down with the edge of the sword.

¹⁶But among those cities which shall be given to you, you shall not permit anyone at all to live. ¹⁷Instead, you shall put them to death with the edge of the sword, specifically: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

¹⁵you shall promptly strike down the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword. And you shall destroy it, along with all the things that are in it, even the flocks.

⁴laying waste to all his cities at one time. There was not a village which escaped from us: sixty cities, the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og, in Bashan. ⁵All the cities were fortified with very high walls, and with gates and bars, in addition to innumerable villages which had no walls. ⁶And we wiped them out, just as we had done to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, and its men, as well as women and children.

¹⁵All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword. ¹⁶Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated. ¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire gold. ¹⁸Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children.

⁴⁰And so Joshua struck the entire land, the mountains, and the south, and the plains, and the descending slopes, with their kings. He did not leave in it any remains, but he put to death all that was able to breathe, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had instructed him,

⁴⁸But the sons of Israel, returning, had struck with the sword all that remained in the city, from men even to cattle. And all the cities and villages of Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.

²and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.

¹⁶You shall devour all the peoples, which the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall not spare them, neither shall you serve their gods, lest they be your ruin.

²¹Prepare his sons for the slaughter, according to the iniquity of their fathers. They will not rise up, nor inherit the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

²¹Ascend against the land of the rulers, and visit against its inhabitants! Scatter and destroy whatever has been left behind them, says the Lord, and act according to all that I have instructed you. ²²A voice of war in the land, and great destruction!

⁷You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall down at the sight of you. ⁸Five of yours will pursue a hundred foreigners, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand. Your enemies will fall by the sword in your sight. ⁹I will look with favor upon you, and I will cause you to increase; you will be multiplied, and I will confirm my covenant with you.

²⁷And he said to them: “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Let a man place his sword at his thigh. Go forth, and then return, from gate to gate, through the midst of the camp, and let each one kill his brother, and friend, and neighbor.” ²⁸And the sons of Levi did according to the words of Moses, and there fell on that day about twenty-three thousand men.

¹¹Observe everything that I command you this day. I myself will drive out before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ¹²Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin. ¹³But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves. ¹⁴Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.

¹⁹And when you have arrived in the vicinity of the sons of Ammon, be careful that you do not fight against them, nor should you be moved to battle. For I will not give to you from the land of the sons of Ammon, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’ ²⁰It was reputed to be a land of giants. And giants lived there in times past, those whom the Ammonites call the Zamzummim. ²¹They are a people, great and numerous, and of lofty stature, like the Anakim, whom the Lord wiped away before their face. And he caused them to live there in place of them, ²²just as he had done for the sons of Esau, who live at Seir, wiping out the Horites and delivering their land to them, which they possess even to the present time. ²³Likewise the Hevites, who were living in small villages as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians, who went forth from Cappadocia, and they wiped them out and lived in their place.