Bible Verses About War: Of extermination

They fought against Midyan, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.

They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain - Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil'am the son of B'or with the sword.

The people of Isra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.

They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.

They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,

and brought the captives, booty and spoil to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community of Isra'el in the camp on the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden across from Yericho.

Moshe, El'azar the cohen and all the community leaders went to meet them outside the camp.

But Moshe was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds coming in from the battlefield.

Moshe asked them, "You let the women live?

Why, these are the ones who - because of Bil'am's advice -caused the people of Isra'el to rebel, breaking faith with ADONAI in the P'or incident, so that the plague broke out among ADONAI's community!

Now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has ever slept with a man.

and ADONAI our God handed him over to us, so that we defeated him, his sons and all his people.

At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city - men, women, little ones - we left none of them.

We completely destroyed them, as we did with Sichon king of Heshbon, annihilating every city -men, women and little ones.

When ADONAI your God hands it over to you, you are to put every male to the sword.

However, you are to take as booty for yourself the women, the little ones, the livestock, and everything in the city - all its spoil. Yes, you will feed on your enemies' spoil, which ADONAI your God has given you.

This is what you are to do to all the towns which are at a great distance from you, which are not the towns of these nations.

"As for the towns of these peoples, which ADONAI your God is giving you as your inheritance, you are not to allow anything that breathes to live.

Rather you must destroy them completely - the Hitti, the Emori, the Kena'ani, the P'rizi, the Hivi and the Y'vusi - as ADONAI your God has ordered you;

so that they won't teach you to follow their abominable practices, which they do for their gods, thus causing you to sin against ADONAI your God.

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Then they burned the city to ashes with everything in it, except for the silver, the gold and the brass and iron utensils, which they put in the treasury of the house of ADONAI.

When Isra'el had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of 'Ai in the countryside, in the desert where they had pursued them, and they had all fallen, consumed by the sword, then all Isra'el returned to 'Ai and defeated it with the sword.

Twelve thousand men and women fell that day, everyone in 'Ai.

his people became greatly alarmed; because Giv'on was as large as one of the royal cities, larger than 'Ai, and all its men were courageous.