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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 20 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.