“And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.”
And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children; -- the cherem pattern is replicated: total destruction of all peoples. The parallel construction (as with Sihon) validates the consistency of the command. Yet the reader familiar with Numbers 31 (Midian) knows that patterns of conquest vary; this is one instance of the cherem, not necessarily universal.
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