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Deuteronomy 2:34

in Deuteronomy 2

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

KJV

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:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 2

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And we took all his cities at that time,.... As Heshbon, and others mentioned in Num 21:25, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city, we left none to remain; for the Amorites were one of the seven nations who were devoted to destruction, the measure of whose iniquity was now full, and therefore vengeance was taken.

This site's exposition

we captured all his cities

on Deuteronomy 2:34-35

Barnes renders the verb behind "devoted to destruction" as laid under ban, the word of Leviticus 27:28 for a thing devoted. Genesis 15:16 had set the term, "for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete", and verse 24 calls Sihon the Amorite.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

16 ), and the longer it was in the filling the sorer was the reckoning at last. This was one of the devoted nations. They died, not as Israel's enemies, but as sacrifices to divine justice, in the offering of which sacrifices Israel was employed, as a kingdom of priests.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city - Render, laid under ban (compare Lev 27:28 note) every inhabited city, both women and children: these last words being added by way of fuller explanation.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַנִּלְכֹּ֤דand we captured

    vanilkodH3920 →121 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עָרָיו֙cities his

    ʾaravH5892 →1090 times

  • בָּעֵ֣תat the time

    baetH6256 →296 times

  • הַהִ֔וא<the> that

    hahiv'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַֽנַּחֲרֵם֙and we totally destroyed

    vanacharemH2763 →52 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • עִ֣ירcity of

    ʾirH5892 →1090 times

  • מְתִ֔םmen

    metimH4962 →22 times

  • וְהַנָּשִׁ֖יםand the women

    vehanashimH802 →781 times

  • וְהַטָּ֑ףand the little one[s]

    vehatafH2945 →42 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • הִשְׁאַ֖רְנוּwe spared

    hisharnuH7604 →133 times

  • שָׂרִֽיד׃a survivor

    saridH8300 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

17 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 3:6We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.7 works1 Samuel 15:3Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”5 worksDeuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.5 worksJoshua 7:11Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.3 worksLeviticus 27:28–29Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.3 works1 Samuel 15:8–9He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.3 works
The other 11 cross-references, with their words ▾
Deuteronomy 20:16–18However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.3 worksJoshua 11:14The Israelites took for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but they put all the people to the sword until they had completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone who breathed.3 worksJoshua 8:25–26A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.3 worksNumbers 21:2–3So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”3 worksDeuteronomy 7:26And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.3 worksNumbers 31:15“Have you spared all the women?” he asked them.3 worksJoshua 9:24The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.2 worksDeuteronomy 13:15you must surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword. Devote to destruction all its people and livestock.2 worksEzekiel 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.2 worksJudges 21:11This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”2 worksJoshua 6:21At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 7:2

    and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

    it leads to

    • Judges 2:2

      and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?

    • Exodus 23:32–33

      You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

    • Leviticus 27:28–29

      Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 15:3

    Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 24:20

      Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”

    • Deuteronomy 20:16–18

      However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.

  • Through

    Joshua 7:11

    Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these…

    it leads to

    • Acts 5:1–2

      Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property.

    • Joshua 6:17–19

      Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies…

    • Hebrews 4:13

      Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 2 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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