Joshua 10:19

19but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; aattack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the Lord your God has given them into your hand.”

Joshua 10:39

39and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.

Joshua 11:12

12And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, bjust as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.

1 Samuel 31:7

7And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.

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