Deuteronomy 2:34
Context2:34 At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them 1 under divine judgment, 2 including even the women and children; we left no survivors.
Deuteronomy 31:12
Context31:12 Gather the people – men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages – so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law.


[2:34] 1 tn Heb “every city of men.” This apparently identifies the cities as inhabited.
[2:34] 2 tn Heb “under the ban” (נַחֲרֵם, nakharem). The verb employed is חָרַם (kharam, usually in the Hiphil) and the associated noun is חֵרֶם (kherem). See J. Naudé, NIDOTTE, 2:276-77, and, for a more thorough discussion, Susan Niditch, War in the Hebrew Bible, 28-77.