Deuteronomy 20:16-18

The Voice

¹⁶ But when you conquer one of the cities the Eternal, your True God, is giving you to live in and pass on to your children, don’t spare anything that breathes! ¹⁷ If it’s a city that belongs to the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, or the Jebusites, then completely destroy the inhabitants as He has commanded you. ¹⁸ If you don’t, they’ll teach you to do all the horrible things they do for their gods, and you’ll sin against Him.