Ulangan 20:16

Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations

20:16 As for the cities of these peoples that ¹  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ²  to survive.

Yosua 8:22

8:22 At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. ³  The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

[20:16]  ¹ tn The antecedent of the relative pronoun is “cities.”

[20:16]  ² tn Heb “any breath.”

[8:22]  ³ tn Heb “and these went out from the city to meet them and they were for Israel in the middle, some on this side, and others on the other side.”