OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 20:12

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If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it.

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Verse 12. Besiege it. The Rabbins assert, that when the city of Madian was attacked in the days of Moses, one side was left unmolested, that the inhabitants might escape, and that this practice was afterwards observed as a law. But we see nothing of the kind in Scripture.

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