We destroyed them just like we destroyed the cities of Sihon king of Heshbon. We completely destroyed every city and all the people in them, even the women and the babies.
Deuteronomy 2:34 - Easy To Read Version We captured all the cities that belonged to King Sihon at that time. We completely destroyed the people in every city—the men, women, and children. We did not leave anyone alive! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition At the same time we took all his cities and utterly destroyed every city–men, women, and children. We left none to remain. American Standard Version (1901) 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: Common English Bible At that time, we captured all of Sihon’s cities, and we placed every town—men, women, and children—under the ban. We left no survivors. Catholic Public Domain Version And we seized all his cities at that time, putting to death their inhabitants: men as well as women and children. We left nothing of them, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them: |
We destroyed them just like we destroyed the cities of Sihon king of Heshbon. We completely destroyed every city and all the people in them, even the women and the babies.
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.
And you must not bring any of those terrible idols into your homes. You must hate those terrible things! You must destroy those idols!
That day Joshua defeated Makkedah. Joshua killed the king and the people in that city. There were no people left living. Joshua did the same thing to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
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 of Israel kept for themselves all the things they found in the cities. They kept all the animals that they found in the city. But they killed all the people there. They did not allow any people to be left alive.
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.
The people of Israel sinned against me. They broke the Agreement that I commanded them to obey. They took some of the things that I commanded them to destroy. They have stolen from me. They have lied. They have taken those things for themselves.
The Gibeonite people answered, “We lied to you because we were afraid you would kill us. We heard that God commanded his servant Moses to give you all of this land. And God told you to kill all the people that lived in this land. That is why we lied to you.
Now, go fight against the Amalekites. You must completely destroy the Amalekites and everything that belongs to them. Don’t let anything live; you must kill all the men and women and all of their children and little babies. You must kill all of their cows and sheep and all of their camels and donkeys.’”