Deuteronomy 3:6
Ver. 6. And we utterly destroyed them,.... Not the cities, but the inhabitants of them:
as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon; they did not destroy his cities, for they took them and dwelt in them; but the people that lived there, as follows here:
utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city; see De 2:34.