When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
Parallel translations
- KJV And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
- BSB When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
- NKJV And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.
- NASB When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.
- NLT When the Lord your God hands the town over to you, use your swords to kill every man in the town.
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- Ps 2:6–12“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
- Num 31:17–18Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
- 1 Kgs 11:15–16For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
- Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Num 31:7–9They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
- 2 Th 1:7–9and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- Ps 21:8–9Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
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