However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Joshua 11:11 - New International Version (Anglicised) Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves.
and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.
They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.