Deuteronomy 3:6 meaning and explanation
We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
Deuteronomy 3:6, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is recounting Israel's defeat of Og, king of Bashan, and the capture of his sixty fortified cities east of the Jordan. Verse 6 describes the herem, the Hebrew word for devotion to destruction: what was placed under it was given wholly to God, and in this campaign that meant every living person in the cities.
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