Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Any left to breathe

Bible References

Any left to breathe

Joshua 10:40
Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

General references

Numbers 33:52
you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.
Deuteronomy 3:7
But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.
Deuteronomy 20:16
As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

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