15Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Here the case is put of a city revolting from its allegiance to the God of Israel, and serving other gods . I. The crime is supposed to be committed, 1. By one of the cities of Israel, that lay within the jurisdiction of their courts. The church then judged those only that were within , 1 Cor. 5:12 , 13 . And, even when they were ordered to preserve their religion in the first principles of it by…
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