13 And when the Lord your God delivers it into your hands, (A)you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword.

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13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it.(A)

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11 And this is the thing that you shall do: (A)You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately.”

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11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.(B)

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Whenever David [a]attacked the land, he left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the apparel, and returned and came to Achish.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:9 Lit. struck

Whenever David attacked an area, he did not leave a man or woman alive,(A) but took sheep and cattle, donkeys and camels, and clothes. Then he returned to Achish.

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15 (A)For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, (B)after he had killed every male in Edom

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15 Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.(A)

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16 (because for six months Joab remained there with all Israel, until he had cut down every male in Edom),

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16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.

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