When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When YHWH delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder YHWH gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the goyim nearby.
However, in the cities of the goyim YHWH gives over to you, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
The Kitos War (115–117; Hebrew: מרד הגלויות, romanized: mered ha-galuyot, or מרד התפוצות mered ha-tfutzot; "rebellion of the diaspora" Latin: Tumultus Iudaicus) was one of the major Roman–Jewish wars (66–136). The rebellions erupted in 115, when most of the Roman armies were fighting Trajan's Parthian War on the eastern border of the Roman Empire. Major uprisings by Jews in Cyrenaica, Cyprus and Egypt spiralled out of control, resulting in a widespread slaughter of the remaining Roman garrisons and Roman citizens by Jewish rebels.
Cities with substantial Jewish populations joined the rebellion and slaughtered the remaining Roman garrisons and Roman citizens.
