Deu 20:10, 17 | ESV | STEP | When you draw near to a city to fight against it , offer terms of peace to it.

a Judg. 21:13; [ch. 2:26; 2 Sam. 20:18, 20]

Deuteronomy 20:10

10 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, ^aoffer terms of peace to it.

Deuteronomy 20:17

17 but ^byou shall devote them to complete destruction, ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,