⁶ And ^(A)we devoted them to destruction,^[a] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(B)city, men, women, and children.

³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[a] every ^(A)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.

²⁴ ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and ^(A)go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of ^(B)Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and ^(C)contend with him in battle.

¹⁴ And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.

¹⁶ But ^(A)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, ¹⁷ but ^(B)you shall devote them to complete destruction,^[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸ that ^(C)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^(D)sin against the Lord your God.

² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to ^(A)Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’

^2 (A)And Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”^[a]