◄ Numbers 21:2 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the Israelites made a vow to the LORD: "If you will let us conquer these people, we will unconditionally dedicate them and their cities to you and will destroy them."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into our hands, then we will utterly destroy their towns.”

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites prayed, "Our LORD, if you will help us defeat these Canaanites, we will completely destroy their towns and everything in them, to show that they belong to you."

New American Bible
Israel then made this vow to the LORD: “If you deliver this people into my hand, I will put their cities under the ban.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

vowed

Genesis 28:20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Judges 11:30 He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

1 Samuel 1:11 And she made a vow, saying: O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt look down, and wilt be mindful of me, and not forget thy handmaid, and wilt give to thy servant a manchild: I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head.

2 Samuel 15:7,8 And after forty years, Absalom said to king David: Let me go, and pay my vows which I have vowed to the Lord in Hebron. . . .

Psalm 56:12,13 In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee: . . .

Psalm 116:18 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:

Psalm 132:2 How he swore to the Lord, he vowed a vow to the God of Jacob:

I will

Leviticus 27:28,29 Any thing that is devoted to the Lord, whether it be man, or beast, or field, shall not be sold: neither may it be redeemed. Whatsoever is once consecrated shall be holy of holies to the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 13:15 Thou shalt forthwith kill the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, and shalt destroy it and all things that are in it, even the cattle.

Joshua 6:17,26 And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent. . . .

1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema, maranatha.

Context
The Defeat of Arad
1And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils. 2But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: If thou wilt deliver thus people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.3And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.…
Cross References
Genesis 28:20
And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Deuteronomy 20:16
But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Judges 11:30
He made a vow to the Lord, saying: If thou wilt deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,

Numbers 21:1
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