When you approach a city to fight against it, you are to make an offer of peace. Cross References Deuteronomy 20:9 When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it. Deuteronomy 20:11 If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you. Judges 21:13 Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon. 2 Samuel 20:19 I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel, but you are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the LORD's inheritance?" Treasury of Scripture When you come near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. then proclaim 2 Samuel 20:18-22 Isaiah 57:19 Zechariah 9:10 |