Deuteronomy 3:6

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 Deuteronomy 2:34 .