16And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
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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