²⁰ And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,

^16 (A)Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ But you shall ^[a]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they may not teach you to do ^(B)according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.

¹⁷ The city shall be ^(A)under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot ^[a]and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸ But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not ^[b]covet them and ^(B)take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. ^19 (C)But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” ²⁰ So the people shouted, and ^[c]priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the ^(D)wall fell down ^[d]flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ^[e]ahead, and they took the city. ^21 (E)They ^[f]utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.