THEOSISDeuteronomy 2:34Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:
וַנִּלְכֹּ֤ד אֶת־כָּל־עָרָיו֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַֽנַּחֲרֵם֙ אֶת־כָּל־עִ֣יר מְתִ֔ם וְהַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַטָּ֑ף לֹ֥א הִשְׁאַ֖רְנוּ שָׂרִֽיד׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 7:2And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:
- 1 Sam 15:3Now therefore go, and smite Amalec, and utterly destroy all that he hath: spare him not, nor covet anything that is his: but slay both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
- Deut 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
- Josh 7:11Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among their goods.
- 1 Sam 15:8And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.
- 1 Sam 15:9And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the flocks of sheep, and of the herds, and the garments and the rams, and all that was beautiful, and would not destroy them: but every thing that was vile, and good for nothing, that they destroyed.
- Deut 20:16But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:
- Deut 20:18Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.