^2:32When Sihon and all his troops⁴⁶ emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,⁴⁷^2:33the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, along with his sons⁴⁸ and everyone else.⁴⁹^2:34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them⁵⁰ under divine judgment,⁵¹ including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

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Footnotes

46 Heb “people.”
47 Jahaz. This is probably Khirbet el-Medeiyineh. See J. Dearman, “The Levitical Cities of Reuben and Moabite Toponymy,” 276 (1984): 55–57.
48 The translation follows the Qere or marginal reading; the Kethib (consonantal text) has the singular, “his son.”
49 Heb “all his people.”
50 Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.
51 Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, , 2:, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28–77. Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. And the Lord our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz. The Lord our God handed him over to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army. At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Then King Sihon declared war on us and mobilized his forces at Jahaz. But the Lord our God handed him over to us, and we crushed him, his sons, and all his people. We conquered all his towns and completely destroyed everyone—men, women, and children. Not a single person was spared.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people. So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor.

KJV 1900King James Version

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 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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