Cross references
Deuteronomy 20:16
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.
Deuteronomy 20:16 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joshua 11:14 (6 votes) and Numbers 21:2–3 (5 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Exodus 23 to Ezekiel 20.
Which verses does Deuteronomy 20:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Joshua 11:146 votes
The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
- Numbers 21:2–35 votes
So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.” And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 7:1–44 votes
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. …
- Deuteronomy 7:164 votes
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
- Joshua 6:17–214 votes
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent. But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it. …
- Exodus 23:31–333 votes
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. …
- Numbers 21:353 votes
So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.
- Numbers 33:523 votes
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Joshua 10:283 votes
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.
- Joshua 10:403 votes
So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
- Joshua 11:11–123 votes
- Joshua 9:242 votes
- Joshua 9:272 votes
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.
Which verses point to Deuteronomy 20:16?
The 10 strongest of 26.