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,+

32 Accordingly Jehovah gave Laʹchish into Israel’s hand so that they captured it on the second day, and they went striking it and every soul that was in it with the edge of the sword,+ according to all that they had done to Libʹnah.