Deuteronomy 20:10

20:10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

Deuteronomy 34:3

34:3 the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

Deuteronomy 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 3:6

3:6 We put all of these under divine judgment ³  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ⁴  including women and children.

Deuteronomy 3:4

3:4 We captured all his cities at that time – there was not a town we did not take from them – sixty cities, all the region of Argob, ⁵  the dominion of Og in Bashan.

Deuteronomy 20:19

20:19 If you besiege a city for a long time while attempting to capture it, ⁶  you must not chop down its trees, ⁷  for you may eat fruit ⁸  from them and should not cut them down. A tree in the field is not human that you should besiege it! ⁹ 

[2:34]  ¹ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ² tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “we put them under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). See note at 2:34.

[3:6]  ² tn Heb “city of men.”

[3:4]  ¹ sn Argob. This is a subdistrict of Bashan, perhaps north of the Yarmuk River. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 314.

[20:19]  ¹ tn Heb “to fight against it to capture it.”

[20:19]  ² tn Heb “you must not destroy its trees by chopping them with an iron” (i.e., an ax).

[20:19]  ³ tn Heb “you may eat from them.” The direct object is not expressed; the word “fruit” is supplied in the translation for clarity.

[20:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “to go before you in siege.”