Bible Verses About War: Of extermination

And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword.

And the sons of Israel take captive the women of Midian, and their infants; and all their cattle, and all their substance, and all their wealth they have plundered;

and all their cities, with their habitations, and all their towers, they have burnt with fire.

And they take all the spoil, and all the prey, among man and among beast;

and they bring in, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the company of the sons of Israel, the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto the camp, unto the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan, near Jericho.

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the company, go out to meet them, unto the outside of the camp,

and Moses is wroth against the inspectors of the force, chiefs of the thousands, and chiefs of the hundreds, who are coming in from the host of the battle.

And Moses saith unto them, `Have ye kept alive every female?

lo, they--they have been to the sons of Israel, through the word of Balaam, to cause a trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and the plague is in the company of Jehovah.

`And now, slay ye every male among the infants, yea, every woman known of man by the lying of a male ye have slain;

and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people;

and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants--we have not left a remnant;

and we devote them, as we have done to Sihon king of Heshbon, devoting every city, men, the women, and the infants;

and Jehovah thy God hath given it into thy hand, and thou hast smitten every male of it by the mouth of the sword.

Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.

So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

`Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee for an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.

and they devote all that is in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.

And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that is in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given to the treasury of the house of Jehovah;

And it cometh to pass, at Israel's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and they fall all of them by the mouth of the sword till their consumption), that all Israel turn back to Ai, and smite it by the mouth of the sword;

and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand--all men of Ai.

that they are greatly afraid, because Gibeon is a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it is greater than Ai, and all its men--heroes.