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 anything that breathes alive. ¹⁷ Instead, you shall ^[a]utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they will not teach you to do ^[b](B)all the same detestable practices of theirs which they have done for their gods, ^[c]by which you would ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.

¹⁷ But the city shall be ^(A)designated for ^[a]destruction, it and everything that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the prostitute ^[b]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 designated for destruction, so that you do not covet them and ^(B)take some of the designated things, and turn the camp of Israel into something designated for destruction and bring disaster 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]the 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, everyone 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, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.