Deuteronomy 2:34

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Summary

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:

Utterly destroyed

General references

Numbers 31:15

Deuteronomy 3:3

Joshua 24:8

Bible References

Utterly destroyed

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

However, you must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

Then Israel made a vow to the Lord, “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will completely destroy their cities.”

Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put the things with their own belongings.

The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was 12,000—all the people of Ai.

The Gibeonites answered him, “It was clearly communicated to your servants that the Lord your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

The Israelites plundered all the spoils and cattle of these cities for themselves. But they struck down every person with the sword until they had annihilated them, leaving no one alive.

Now go and attack the Amalekites and completely destroy everything they have. Do not spare them. Kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

General references

“Have you let every female live?” he asked them.

So the Lord our God also handed over Og king of Bashan and his whole army to us. We struck him until there was no survivor left.

“‘Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I handed them over to you. You possessed their land, and I annihilated them before you.