Deuteronomy 2:34
32 So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.
33 And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.
At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
35 We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.
36 From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
- KJV
- And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
- WEB
- We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
- ASV
- And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
- DARBY
- And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, men, and women, and little ones: we let none escape.
- BLB
- And we took all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones. We left no survivor.
- ÅB
- Og vi inntok dengang alle hans byer og slo hver by med bann, menn og kvinner og barn; vi lot ikke noen bli tilbake eller slippe unna.
- OTB
- På den tiden erobret vi alle hans byer og ødela fullstendig menn, kvinner og barn i hver by. Vi lot ingen overlevende.
- B1930
- Og vi inntok dengang alle hans byer og slo hver by med bann, menn og kvinner og barn; vi lot ikke nogen bli tilbake eller slippe unda.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 7:2
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
Read in context1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 3:6
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
Read in contextJoshua 11:14
The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 20:16–18
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
Read in contextJoshua 7:11
Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
Read in contextJoshua 8:25–26
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
Read in contextLeviticus 27:28–29
Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
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