2 Consequently Israel made a vow to Jehovah and said:+ “If you will without fail give this people into my hand, I shall also certainly devote their cities to destruction.”+

18 Later Jehovah sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, and you must devote the sinners,+ the A·malʹek·ites,* to destruction, and you must fight against them until you will have exterminated them.’+