Deuteronomy 2:33

33 And so Yahweh our God gave him over {to us}, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people.

Deuteronomy 2:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the Lord our God delivered him before us
With their lands:

and we smote him and his sons, and all his people;
with the edge of the sword; slew them all: the Cetib or textual reading is "his son", though the Keri or margin is "his sons", which we follow. So Jarchi observes, it is written "his son", because he had a son mighty as himself, he says.

Deuteronomy 2:33 In-Context

31 Yahweh said to me, 'Look! I have begun to give {over to you} Sihon and his land; begin {to take possession of his land}.'

32 Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz.

33 And so Yahweh our God gave him over {to us}, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people.

34 So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town [of] males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor.

35 We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves, and [also] the booty of the cities that we had captured.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "before us"
• [b]. Or "descendants"