Heb. no seed, i.e. no man, as that word is oft used. Compare Joshua 10:40, with Deuteronomy 11:14. For the beasts, some few excepted as being under a special curse, were given them for a prey.
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Deuteronomy 20:16
16 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: