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Deuteronomy 2:32-34
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 2:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to give battle at Jahaz. 33 The Lord, our God, delivered him over to us. We killed him and his sons and all his people. 34 It was then that we captured all of his cities and completely wiped out the men, the women, and the children of all the cities.[a] We left nothing alive
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- Deuteronomy 2:34 Destruction, or anathema, was a way of completely consecrating something to the divinity. Deuteronomy makes it a means of preserving the people. See Deut 7:2.