13And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
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Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. …
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, …
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. …
A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)They are here directed what method to take in dealing with the cities (these only are mentioned, Deut. 20:10; but doubtless the armies in the field, and the nations they had occasion to deal with, are likewise intended) upon which they made war. They must not make a descent upon any of their neighbours till they had first given them fair notice, by a public manifesto, or remonstrance, stating the…
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