Numbers 21:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.”

Cross References

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,

Psalm 116:18

I will pay my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people,

Psalm 132:2

how he swore to the Lord and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

1 Corinthians 16:22

Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come!

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.

Deuteronomy 13:16

All of its spoil you shall gather into its public square, then burn the town and all its spoil with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall remain a perpetual ruin, never to be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 20:16

But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.

Joshua 6:17

The city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live because she hid the messengers we sent.

Joshua 6:26

Joshua then pronounced this oath, saying, “Cursed before the Lord be anyone who tries to build this city, Jericho! At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates!”

Judges 11:30

And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,

1 Samuel 1:11

She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.”