16 It is only of the cities of these peoples that Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance that you must not preserve any breathing thing* alive,+

40 And Joshua proceeded to strike all the land of the mountainous region+ and the Negʹeb+ and the She·pheʹlah*+ and the slopes+ and all their kings. He did not let a survivor remain, and everything that breathed*+ he devoted to destruction,+ just as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.+