DEUTERONOMY 20:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.”
If it accepts your terms of peace and opens its gates to you, then all the people in it shall serve you under forced labor — the peaceful capitulation allows the city to survive as a subject population; the offer of peace is not magnanimous but strategic, converting the enemy into tributary states that owe service.
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