Leviticus 27:29
None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.
Cross-references
Numbers 21:2 records Israel's vow to utterly destroy Canaanites, an example of applying the law of persons devoted to destruction.
Numbers 21:3 fulfills that vow, showing the complete destruction commanded by the law of devoted persons.
1 Samuel 15:18-23 rebukes Saul for sparing the Amalekite king and livestock, violating the law of total destruction for devoted persons.
Deuteronomy 2:34 applies the cherem law to Sihon's cities — total destruction without survivors, directly implementing the principle of irrevocable devotion.
Deuteronomy 3:6 similarly records the complete destruction of Og's kingdom as another historical fulfillment of the cherem command.
Deuteronomy 7:2 commands the Israelites to 'utterly destroy' the Canaanite nations when given into their hand, directly echoing the cherem law.
Deuteronomy 7:26 warns against bringing an abominable thing into the house, lest it become devoted to destruction like the object itself.
Deuteronomy 13:17 requires that nothing from the cherem city be kept, to avoid becoming devoted to destruction — a direct application of the law.
Joshua 6:17 explicitly devotes Jericho and all in it to the Lord for destruction, the classic case of cherem warfare.
1 Samuel 15:3 commands total destruction of the Amalekites, a direct application of the herem principle—devoted things cannot be spared.
Judges 11:31 shows a personal vow to devote whatever meets him — the resulting irrevocability echoes Leviticus 27:29's no-ransom principle.
Judges 11:35 emphasizes the vow cannot be broken, parallel to the unredeemable devotion in Leviticus 27:29.
Judges 11:39 fulfills the vow, showing the irrevocable nature of devotion — parallel to the cherem law's irreversible death.
Judges 21:5 shows an oath to kill those who failed to assemble, illustrating the same irrevocable devotion to destruction as in Lev 27:29.