“But when you take cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must kill everyone.
Joshua 11:11 - Easy To Read Version The army of Israel killed every person in that city. They completely destroyed all the people. There was nothing left alive. Then they burned the city. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They smote all the people in it with the sword, utterly destroying them; none were left alive, and he burned Hazor with fire. American Standard Version (1901) And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire. Common English Bible They struck down everyone there without mercy, wiping them out as something reserved for God. Nothing that breathed was left. Hazor itself he burned. Catholic Public Domain Version And he struck down all the souls that were staying there. He did not leave in it any remains, but he destroyed everything unto utter annihilation, and he destroyed the city itself with fire. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with fire. |
“But when you take cities in the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must kill everyone.
But we kept all the cows and the valuable things from the cities for ourselves.
The Lord your God will put these nations under your power. And you will defeat them. You must destroy them completely. Don’t make an agreement with them. Don’t show them mercy.
So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of the hill country, the Negev, [48] the western foothills, and the eastern foothills. The Lord God of Israel had told Joshua to kill all the people. So Joshua did not leave anyone alive in those places.
The people destroyed everything in the city. They destroyed everything that was living there. They killed the young men and old men, young women and old women, cattle, sheep, and donkeys.
Then the people of Israel burned the whole city. They burned everything in the city except the things made from silver, gold, bronze, and iron. They put those things in the Lord’s treasury.