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34 At that time, we captured all of Sihon’s cities, and we placed every town—men, women, and children—under the ban.[a] We left no survivors. 35 The only things we kept for ourselves were the animals and the plunder from the towns we had taken. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon Ravine, to the town that is in the valley there,[b] even as far as Gilead, there wasn’t a city that could resist us. The Lord our God laid everything out before us.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:34 A technique of holy war that often involves total destruction, in which everything that is destroyed is dedicated to the deity who helps in the battle
  2. Deuteronomy 2:36 Heb uncertain

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