Ulangan 2:34

2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

Ulangan 20:16

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ³  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ⁴  to survive.

[2:34]  ¹ tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.

[2:34]  ² 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.

[20:16]  ³ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

[20:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “any breath.”