Deuteronomy 3:6
And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et delevimus eos, sicut feceramus Sehon regi Hesebon, disperdentes omnem civitatem, virosque ac mulieres et parvulos :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἐξωλεθρεύσαμεν αὐτοὺς ὥσπερ ἐποιήσαμεν τὸν Σηὼν βασιλέα Ἑσεβών, καὶ ἐξωλεθρεύσαμεν πᾶσαν πόλιν ἑξῆς, καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας καὶ τὰ παιδία
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַנַּחֲרֵ֣ם אוֹתָ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֔ינוּ לְסִיחֹ֖ן מֶ֣לֶךְ חֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן הַחֲרֵם֙ כָּל עִ֣יר מְתִ֔ם הַנָּשִׁ֖ים וְהַטָּֽף
Haydock's commentary
Utterly. Yet out of the ruins they soon raised other strong cities, Numbers xxxii. 26. All the walls were not probably demolished, (ver. 19,) but only a part, so that they might be repaired with no great labour or expense. The inhabitants were all destroyed, that they might not pervert the Hebrews by their bad example; and because God had pronounced the sentence of death upon them, in punishment of their crimes. Hebrew seems to insinuate, that the cities were destroyed only by the death of the inhabitants. "We subjected them to anathema....utterly destroying the men," &c. (Haydock)
We devoted to utter ruin the men, women, and children of the cities which we took. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.