Yosua 9:24-25

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ¹  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ²  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing. 9:25 So now we are in your power. ³  Do to us what you think is good and appropriate. ⁴ 

Yosua 10:28

Joshua Launches a Southern Campaign

10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. ⁵ 

Yosua 10:39

10:39 They ⁶  captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they ⁷  left no survivors. They ⁸  did to Debir and its king what they ⁹  had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 11:14

11:14 The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people ¹¹  and allowed no one who breathed to live.

Ulangan 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹²  under divine judgment, ¹³  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Ulangan 7:2-3

7:2 and he ¹⁴  delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate ¹⁵  them. Make no treaty ¹⁶  with them and show them no mercy! 7:3 You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Ulangan 7:16

Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism

7:16 You must destroy ¹⁷  all the people whom the Lord your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship ¹⁸  their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Ulangan 20:16-17

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ¹⁹  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ²⁰  to survive. 20:17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them ²¹  – the Hittites, ²²  Amorites, ²³  Canaanites, ²⁴  Perizzites, ²⁵  Hivites, ²⁶  and Jebusites ²⁷  – just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Ulangan 20:1

Laws Concerning War with Distant Enemies

20:1 When you go to war against your enemies and see chariotry ²⁸  and troops ²⁹  who outnumber you, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, is with you.

1 Samuel 15:3

15:3 So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare ³⁰  them. Put them to death – man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

1 Samuel 15:8

15:8 He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people ³¹  with the sword.

1 Samuel 15:18-19

15:18 The Lord sent you on a campaign ³²  saying, ‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you ³³  have destroyed them.’ 15:19 Why haven’t you obeyed ³⁴  the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.” ³⁵ 

1 Samuel 15:1

Saul Is Rejected as King

15:1 Then Samuel said to Saul, “I was the one the Lord sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the Lord says. ³⁶ 

Kisah Para Rasul 20:1

Paul Travels Through Macedonia and Greece

20:1 After the disturbance had ended, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging ³⁷  them and saying farewell, ³⁸  he left to go to Macedonia. ³⁹ 

Mazmur 137:8-9

137:8 O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! ⁴⁰ 

How blessed will be the one who repays you

for what you dished out to us! ⁴¹ 

137:9 How blessed will be the one who grabs your babies

and smashes them on a rock! ⁴² 

Yeremia 48:18

48:18 Come down from your place of honor;

sit on the dry ground, ⁴³  you who live in Dibon. ⁴⁴ 

For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you;

he will destroy your fortifications.

Wahyu 18:21

18:21 Then ⁴⁵  one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said,

“With this kind of sudden violent force ⁴⁶ 

Babylon the great city will be thrown down ⁴⁷ 

and it will never be found again!

[9:24]  ¹ tn Heb “your servants.”

[9:24]  ² tn Or “we were very afraid.”

[9:25]  ³ tn Heb “so now, look, we are in your hand.”

[9:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to what is good and according to what is upright in your eyes to do us, do.”

[10:28]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[10:39]  ⁶ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ⁸ tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

[10:39]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[11:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “but all the people they struck down with the edge of the sword until they destroyed them.”

[2:34]  ¹² tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ¹³ tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.

[2:34]  sn Divine judgment refers to God’s designation of certain persons, places, and things as objects of his special wrath and judgment because, in his omniscience, he knows them to be impure and hopelessly unrepentant.

[7:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[7:2]  ¹⁵ tn In the Hebrew text the infinitive absolute before the finite verb emphasizes the statement. The imperfect has an obligatory nuance here. Cf. ASV “shalt (must NRSV) utterly destroy them”; CEV “must destroy them without mercy.”

[7:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “covenant” (so NASB, NRSV); TEV “alliance.”

[7:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “devour” (so NRSV); KJV, NAB, NASB “consume.” The verbal form (a perfect with vav consecutive) is understood here as having an imperatival or obligatory nuance (cf. the instructions and commands that follow). Another option is to take the statement as a continuation of the preceding conditional promises and translate “and you will destroy.”

[7:16]  ¹⁸ tn Or “serve” (so KJV, NIV, NRSV).

[20:16]  ¹⁹ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

[20:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “any breath.”

[20:17]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “utterly.” Cf. CEV “completely wipe out.”

[20:17]  sn The Hebrew verb refers to placing persons or things so evil and/or impure as to be irredeemable under God’s judgment, usually to the extent of their complete destruction. See also the note on the phrase “the divine judgment” in Deut 2:34.

[20:17]  ²² sn Hittite. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 b.c.) they were at their zenith, establishing outposts and colonies near and far. Some elements were obviously in Canaan at the time of the Conquest (1400-1350 b.c.).

[20:17]  ²³ sn Amorite. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200 b.c. or thereabouts.

[20:17]  ²⁴ sn Canaanite. These were the indigenous peoples of the land of Palestine, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000 b.c.). The OT identifies them as descendants of Ham (Gen 10:6), the only Hamites to have settled north and east of Egypt.

[20:17]  ²⁵ sn Perizzite. This probably refers to a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).

[20:17]  ²⁶ sn Hivite. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on “Horites” in Deut 2:12).

[20:17]  ²⁷ tc The LXX adds “Girgashites” here at the end of the list in order to list the full (and usual) complement of seven (see note on “seven” in Deut 7:1).

[20:17]  sn Jebusite. These people inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).

[20:1]  ²⁸ tn Heb “horse and chariot.”

[20:1]  ²⁹ tn Heb “people.”

[15:3]  ³⁰ tn Or perhaps “don’t take pity on” (cf. CEV).

[15:8]  ³¹ tn Heb “all the people.” For clarity “Agag’s” has been supplied in the translation.

[15:18]  ³² tn Heb “journey.”

[15:18]  ³³ tc The translation follows the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum in reading the second person singular suffix (“you”) rather than the third person plural suffix of the MT (“they”).

[15:19]  ³⁴ tn Heb “listened to the voice of the Lord.”

[15:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “you have done what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[15:1]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to the voice of the words of the Lord” (so KJV).

[20:1]  ³⁷ tn Or “exhorting.”

[20:1]  ³⁸ tn Or “and taking leave of them.”

[20:1]  ³⁹ sn Macedonia was the Roman province of Macedonia in Greece.

[137:8]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “O devastated daughter of Babylon.” The psalmist dramatically anticipates Babylon’s demise.

[137:8]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “O the happiness of the one who repays you your wage which you paid to us.”

[137:9]  ⁴² sn For other references to the wholesale slaughter of babies in the context of ancient Near Eastern warfare, see 2 Kgs 8:12; Isa 13:16; Hos 13:16; Nah 3:10.

[48:18]  ⁴³ tn Heb “sit in thirst.” The abstract “thirst” is put for the concrete, i.e., thirsty or parched ground (cf. Deut 8:19; Isa 35:7; Ps 107:33) for the concrete. There is no need to emend to “filth” (צֹאָה [tso’ah] for צָמָא [tsama’]) as is sometimes suggested.

[48:18]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “inhabitant of Daughter Dibon.” “Daughter” is used here as often in Jeremiah for the personification of a city, a country, or its inhabitants. The word “inhabitant” is to be understood as a collective as also in v. 19.

[48:18]  sn Dibon was an important fortified city located on the “King’s Highway,” the main north-south road in Transjordan. It was the site at which the Moabite Stone was found in 1868 and was one of the cities mentioned on it. It was four miles north of the Arnon River and thirteen miles east of the Dead Sea. It was one of the main cities on the northern plateau and had been conquered from Sihon and allotted to the tribe of Reuben (Josh 13:17).

[18:21]  ⁴⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[18:21]  ⁴⁶ tn On ὅρμημα ({ormhma) BDAG 724 s.v. states, “violent rush, onset ὁρμήματι βληθήσεται Βαβυλών Babylon will be thrown down with violence Rv 18:21.” L&N 68.82 refers to the suddenness of the force or violence.

[18:21]  ⁴⁷ sn Thrown down is a play on both the words and the action. The angel’s action with the stone illustrates the kind of sudden violent force with which the city will be overthrown.