And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
Parallel translations
- WEB We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
- KJV And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
- BSB We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
- NASB We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
- NLT We completely destroyed the kingdom of Bashan, just as we had destroyed King Sihon of Heshbon. We destroyed all the people in every town we conquered—men, women, and children alike.
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Quick answer
Israel devoted Og's cities to destruction as with Sihon. It applies the same herem judgment to Bashan.
Overview
As with Sihon, the inhabitants of Bashan were devoted to destruction under God's judgment. The repetition marks this as a consistent act within a particular season of divine judgment in redemptive history. Read soberly, it underscores the gravity of sin and points ahead to the final reckoning from which Christ delivers His people.
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- Deut 2:34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
- Ps 135:10–12who struck many nations, and killed mighty kings,
- Deut 2:24“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
- Josh 11:14The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn’t leave any who breathed.
- Deut 20:16–18But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
- Deut 3:2Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
- Ps 136:19–21Sihon king of the Amorites; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Num 21:2Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
- Lev 27:28–29“‘Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
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