Deuteronomy 2:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

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  • Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  • Deut 3:6 : 6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.
  • 1 Sam 15:8-9 : 8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy. 9 But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.
  • Lev 27:28-29 : 28 But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord. 29 Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.
  • Num 21:2-3 : 2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns. 3 And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.
  • Deut 7:26 : 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: 17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
  • Josh 7:11 : 11 Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
  • Josh 8:25-26 : 25 On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
  • Josh 9:24 : 24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.
  • Josh 11:14 : 14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

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  • Deut 3:3-7
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    89%

    3 So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight.

    4 At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.

    5 All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

    6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

    7 But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.

  • Deut 2:35-36
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    85%

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

    36 From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:

  • Deut 2:33
    81%

    33 And the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons and all his people.

  • Josh 6:21
    78%

    21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • Deut 20:13-17
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    77%

    13 And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.

    14 But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.

    15 So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

    16 But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

    17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders:

  • Josh 11:14
    77%

    14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.

  • Josh 10:37
    77%

    37 And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    77%

    39 And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.

    40 So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

    11 And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

  • Num 31:9-11
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    75%

    9 The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;

    10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

    11 They went away with the goods they had taken, man and beast.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    75%

    17 So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.

    18 But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.

  • 1 Sam 30:2
    75%

    2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

  • Josh 11:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11 And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.

    12 And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.

  • Ezek 9:6
    74%

    6 Give up to destruction old men and young men and virgins, little children and women: but do not come near any man who has the mark on him: and make a start at my holy place. So they made a start with the old men who were before the house.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

    16 And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.

  • Josh 10:30
    73%

    30 And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Deut 7:2
    73%

    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

  • Josh 10:20
    73%

    20 Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    73%

    3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • Deut 2:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.

    16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

  • Num 21:2
    72%

    2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

  • Josh 11:21
    72%

    21 And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

  • Num 21:35
    72%

    35 So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.

  • Gen 34:29
    71%

    29 And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    71%

    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

  • Josh 2:10
    71%

    10 For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

  • Josh 10:35
    71%

    35 And that day they took it, putting it and every person in it to the sword, as he had done to Lachish.

  • Josh 8:26
    71%

    26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    71%

    19 And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.