Deuteronomy 3:6

6 And ¹we devoted them to destruction,^[a] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ²city, men, women, and children.

Deuteronomy 3:6 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:6

And we utterly destroyed them
Not the cities, but the inhabitants of them:

as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon;
they did not destroy his cities, for they took them and dwelt in them; but the people that lived there, as follows here:

utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city;
see ( Deuteronomy 2:34 ) .

Deuteronomy 3:6 In-Context

4 And we took all his cities at that time--there was not a city that we did not take from them--sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.

6 And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.

7 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.

8 So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon

Cross References

• 1. See Deuteronomy 7:2; Psalms 135:10-12
• 2. Deuteronomy 2:34

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse