Deu 2:32-36 | KD | STEP | Defeat of Sihon, as already described in the main in Num 21:23-26. The war was a war of extermination, in which all the towns were laid under the ban (see ), i.e., the whole of the population of men, women, and children were put to death, and only the flocks and herds and material possessions were taken by the conquerors as prey.

‏ Deuteronomy 2:32-36

Defeat of Sihon, as already described in the main in Num 21:23-26. The war was a war of extermination, in which all the towns were laid under the ban (see Lev 27:29), i.e., the whole of the population of men, women, and children were put to death, and only the flocks and herds and material possessions were taken by the conquerors as prey. Deu 2:34-35 מתם עיר (city of men) is the town population of men. Deu 2:36

They proceeded this way with the whole of the kingdom of Sihon. “From Aroër on the edge of the Arnon valley (see at Num 32:34), and, in fact, from the city which is in the valley,” i.e., Ar, or Areopolis (see at Num 21:15), - Aroër being mentioned as the inclusive terminus a quo of the land that was taken, and the Moabitish capital Ar as the exclusive terminus, as in Jos 13:9 and Jos 13:16; “and as far as Gilead,” which rises on the north, near the Jabbok (or Zerka, see at Deu 3:4), “there was no town too high for us,” i.e., so strong that we could not take it.