Joshua 9:9

9:9 They told him, “Your subjects ¹  have come from a very distant land because of the reputation ²  of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt ³ 

Deuteronomy 20:11-15

20:11 If it accepts your terms ⁴  and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves. ⁵  20:12 If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it. 20:13 The Lord your God will deliver it over to you ⁶  and you must kill every single male by the sword. 20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you. 20:15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

Deuteronomy 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ⁷  and troops ⁸  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 8:1-2

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁹  I am giving ¹⁰  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ¹¹  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ¹²  8:2 Remember the whole way by which he ¹³  has brought you these forty years through the desert ¹⁴  so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 20:14

20:14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city – all its plunder – you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the Lord your God has given you.

¹ tn Or “servants.”

² tn Heb “name.”

³ tn Heb “the report about him, all that he did in Egypt.”

⁴ tn Heb “if it answers you peace.”

⁵ tn Heb “become as a vassal and will serve you.” The Hebrew term translated slaves (מַס, mas) refers either to Israelites who were pressed into civil service, especially under Solomon (1 Kgs 5:27; 9:15, 21; 12:18), or (as here) to foreigners forced as prisoners of war to become slaves to Israel. The Gibeonites exemplify this type of servitude (Josh 9:3-27; cf. Josh 16:10; 17:13; Judg 1:28, 30-35; Isa 31:8; Lam 1:1).

⁷ tn Heb “to your hands.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

¹¹ tn Heb “people.”

¹³ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

¹⁴ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

¹⁵ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁷ tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.