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.

Exodus 23:31
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.

Numbers 21:2
So Israel made a vow to the LORD: "If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction."

Numbers 21:3
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.

Numbers 31:17
So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,

Deuteronomy 7:1
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--

Deuteronomy 20:15
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Deuteronomy 20:17
For you must devote them to complete destruction--the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites--as the LORD your God has commanded you,

Joshua 6:21
At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city--man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Joshua 6:24
Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.

Joshua 8:8
And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders."

Joshua 8:25
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day--all the people of Ai.

Joshua 10:20
So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.

Joshua 10:28
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 10:40
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
The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

Joshua 11:12
Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and put them to the sword. He devoted them to destruction, as Moses the LORD's servant had commanded.

Joshua 11:14
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.

1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'"

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God does give you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes: