18 and she speaks, saying, `They spoke often in former times, saying, Let them diligently ask at Abel, and so they finished.
2 Samuel 20:18 Cross References - CLV
Deuteronomy 20:10-11
10 When you come near to a city to fight against it then you should call to it for peace.
11 And it will come to be if it should answer you with peace, and it opens up to you, then it will come to be that all the people who are being found in it shall become tributary to you, and they will serve you.