Deuteronomy 20:10-12

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ “When you come near to a city, to fight against it, you shall offer it peace.

¹¹ “And if it answers you peaceably, and opens to you, then let all the people who are found in it be tributaries to you and serve you.

¹² “But if it will make no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.