Joshua 6:21

And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city ,.... All the inhabitants of it, by the direction of Joshua, and according to the order of the Lord, Deuteronomy 7:1 ; being guilty of capital crimes, which deserved death, as idolatry, incest, &c.;

both men and women, young and old ; neither sex nor age were spared:

and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword ; in which creatures chiefly lay the substance of the eastern people; see Job 1:3 .