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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Numbers 31:9–20

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods. / Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments, / and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Deuteronomy 20:13

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

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Deuteronomy 21:10

When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Joshua 8:29

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Joshua 10:15–40

Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal. / Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah. / And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Joshua 11:11

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

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Judges 7:25

They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. So they pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Judges 8:21

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Get up and kill us yourself, for as the man is, so is his strength.” So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments from the necks of their camels.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Judges 21:11

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death 1 Samuel 15:32, 33

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” / But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death 2 Samuel 8:2

David also defeated the Moabites, made them lie down on the ground, and measured them off with a cord. He measured off with two lengths those to be put to death, and with one length those to be spared. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death 2 Kings 8:12

“Why is my lord weeping?” asked Hazael. “Because I know the evil you will do to the Israelites,” Elisha replied. “You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little ones to pieces, and rip open their pregnant women.”

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Captive: Cruelty to Putting to Death Jeremiah 39:6

There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also killed all the nobles of Judah.

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