2 Kings 6:22

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2 Kings 6:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible

20 When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.

21 And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

22 “Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

23 So the king prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. And the Aramean raiders did not come into the land of Israel again.

24 Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.

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Deuteronomy 20:11

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Deuteronomy 20:12

But if they refuse to make peace with you and wage war against you, lay siege to that city.

Deuteronomy 20:13

When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.

Deuteronomy 20:14

But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 20:15

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Deuteronomy 20:16

However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

2 Chronicles 28:8

Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

2 Chronicles 28:9

But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.

2 Chronicles 28:10

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

2 Chronicles 28:11

Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”

2 Chronicles 28:12

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2 Chronicles 28:13

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Joshua 24:12

I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

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For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

Hosea 1:7

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

Hosea 2:18

On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.

Proverbs 25:21

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Proverbs 25:22

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But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

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Romans 12:21

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.