However, only from the cities of these peoples, which Adonai your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes live.
Joshua 11:11 - Tree of Life Version They struck down every single soul in it with the edge of the sword, putting them to the ban. There was none left that breathed after he burned Hazor with fire. 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, only from the cities of these peoples, which Adonai your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes live.
But all the livestock and the spoils of the cities we took as plunder for ourselves.
and Adonai your God gives them over to you and you strike them down, then you are to utterly destroy them. You are to make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
So Joshua conquered the entire country—the hill country, the Negev, the lowland and the slopes—with all their kings. He left no survivors, but he put everything that breathed under the ban, just as Adonai God of Israel had commanded.
They utterly destroyed everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep and donkey—with the edge of the sword.
Then they burned the city with fire and all that was in it. Only the silver, the gold and the vessels of bronze and iron did they put into the treasury of the House of Adonai.