But as for the cities of these peoples that YHWH your God is giving you for an inheritance, you must not allow anything with breath to live.
Joshua 11:11 - Y'all Version Bible They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. 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. |
But as for the cities of these peoples that YHWH your God is giving you for an inheritance, you must not allow anything with breath to live.
But all the livestock and the plunder of the cities we took for ourselves as booty.
and when YHWH your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then must destroy-destroy them. You are not to make a covenant with them or show mercy to them.
So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as YHWH, the God of Israel, commanded.
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of the house of YHWH.