When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you; that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
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When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it. It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found therein shall become forced laborers to you, and shall serve you. If it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you shall besiege it. When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword; but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you. Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you; that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God. When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them; for you may eat of them. You shall not cut them down, for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged by you? Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.
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When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;
but the women, the little ones, the livestock, and all that is in the city, even all its plunder, you shall take for plunder for yourself. You may use the plunder of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
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And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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:
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
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And when the LORD thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword;
but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth,
but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee;
that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, and so ye sin against the LORD your God.
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- Deuteronomy 12:30-31 (v18) be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods,…
- Joshua 11:14 (vv14, 16) The children of Israel took all the plunder of these cities, with the livestock, as plunder for themselves; but every man they struck with…
- Exodus 23:33 (v18) They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
- Numbers 21:2-3 (v16) Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”…
- Joshua 8:2 (v14) You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set…
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- Numbers 33:52 (v16) then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images,…
- Deuteronomy 7:1-4 (v16) When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the…
- Joshua 6:17-21 (v16) The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in…
- Joshua 22:8 (v14) and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with…
- Ephesians 5:11 (v18) Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
- Exodus 23:31-33 (v16) I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the…
- Exodus 34:16 (v18) and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the…
- Numbers 21:35 (v16) So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
- Numbers 31:9 (v14) The children of Israel took the women of Midian captive with their little ones; and all their livestock, all their flocks, and all their…
- Deuteronomy 7:1-2 (v17) When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you—the Hittite, the…
- Deuteronomy 7:4-5 (v18) For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So Yahweh’s anger would be kindled against you, and…
- Deuteronomy 7:16 (v16) You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods;…
- Joshua 10:28 (v16) Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who…
- Joshua 10:40 (v16) So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he…
- Joshua 11:11-12 (v16) They struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burned…
- Joshua 23:13 (v18) know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap…
- Psalms 2:6-12 (v13) “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.” I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your…
- Psalms 106:34-40 (v18) They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them, but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works. They served…
- Isaiah 34:5-6 (v17) For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment. Yahweh’s sword…
- Jeremiah 48:10 (v17) “Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
- Jeremiah 50:35-40 (v17) “A sword is on the Chaldeans,” says Yahweh, “and on the inhabitants of Babylon, on her princes, and on her wise men. A sword is on the…
- Ezekiel 38:21-23 (v17) I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Every man’s sword will be against his brother. I will…
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 (v18) Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:17 (v18) Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:14 (v18) If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
- Numbers 31:7-9 (v13) They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male. They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their…
- Numbers 31:12 (v14) They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of…
- Numbers 31:17-18 (v13) Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the girls, who have…
- Numbers 31:18 (v14) But all the girls, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
- Numbers 31:35-54 (v14) and thirty-two thousand persons in all, of the women who had not known man by lying with him. The half, which was the portion of those who…
- Deuteronomy 18:19 (v18) It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
- Joshua 9:24 (v16) They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all…
- Joshua 9:27 (v16) That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for Yahweh’s altar to this day, in the place which he…
- Judges 2:3 (v18) Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’…
- 1 Kings 11:15-16 (v13) For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom (for Joab and…
- 2 Chronicles 14:13-15 (v14) Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for…
- 2 Chronicles 20:25 (v14) When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious…
- Psalms 21:8-9 (v13) Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you. You will make them as a fiery furnace in the…
- Psalms 68:12 (v14) “Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
- Psalms 110:1 (v13) Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
- Luke 19:27 (v13) But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
- Romans 8:37 (v14) No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 (v13) and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,…
- 1 Timothy 6:5 (v18) constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself…
- 2 Timothy 2:17-18 (v18) and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus: men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the…
- Revelation 19:18 (v17) that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them,…
- Revelation 18:3-5 (v18) For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v15 For God had appointed that the Canaanites should be…
For God had appointed that the Canaanites should be destroyed, and made the Israelites executors of his will, Deut. 7:1.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv13, 17 Deu 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath…
Deu 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Ver. 13. Thou shalt smite every male thereof.] Let them pay for their pervicacy. So Caesar answered the Adviatici, that he would have spared their city if they had yielded before he had assaulted. {a} And so the Duke of Alva much blamed Prosper Columnus, for receiving a castle upon condition after he had beaten it with the cannon. {b} Howbeit in the Lord Protector’s expedition into Scotland in the reign of Edward VI, one castle, when they understood they were not able to hold out, and that their obstinacy had excluded all hope of pardon, they made petition that they might not presently be slain, but have some time to recommend their souls to God, and afterwards be hanged. This respite being first obtained, their pardon did the more easily ensue. {c}
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{a} Si priusquam aries murum attegisset se dedissent. - Coes. II. Gallic.
{b} Connestab VI.
{c} Life of Edward VI., by Sir John Heywood.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 16 A just punishment of their obstinate refusal of peace…
A just punishment of their obstinate refusal of peace offered.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv13–18 And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it…
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,.... When, what with pressures without, and calamities within, the city is obliged to surrender: this is not to be imputed to the methods and arts of war used in besieging, or to the courage and skill of the besiegers; but to the power and providence of God succeeding means used, and sending famine or pestilence among the besieged, and inclining their hearts to deliver up their city:
thou shall smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword; the men in it, grown persons, as distinguished from little ones in the next verse; because it was owing to these it was not surrendered at once, when terms of peace were offered.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v16 Nothing - No man. For the beasts, some few…
Nothing - No man. For the beasts, some few excepted, were given them for a prey.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v17 Verse 17. But thou shalt utterly destroy them] The…
Verse 17. But thou shalt utterly destroy them] The above reasoning will gain considerable strength, provided we could translate כי החרם תחרימם hi hacharem tacharimem, thou shalt utterly subdue them - slaying them if they resist, and thus leaving nothing alive that breathed; or totally expel them from the land, or reduce them to a state of slavery in it, that they might no longer exist as a people. This certainly made them an anathema as a nation, wholly destroying their political existence. Probably this was so understood by the Gibeonites, viz., that they either must be slain or utterly leave the land, which last was certainly in their power, and therefore, by a stratagem, they got the princes of Israel to make a league with them. When the deceit was discovered, the Israelites, though not bound by their oath, because they were deceived by the Gibeonites, and therefore were under no obligation to fulfil their part of the covenant; yet, though they had this command before their eyes, did not believe that they were bound to put even those deceivers to death; but they destroyed their political existence, by making them hewers of wood and drawers of water to the congregation; i. e., slaves to the Israelites. (See Jos 9:23) Rahab and her household also were spared. So that it does not appear that the Israelites believed that they were bound to put every Canaanite to death. Their political existence was under the anathema, and this the Hebrews annihilated.
That many of the Canaanites continued in the land even to the days of Solomon, we have the fullest proof; for we read, 2Ch 8:7: "All the people of the land that were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were left in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute to this day." Thus Solomon destroyed their political existence, but did not consider himself bound by the law of God to put them to death.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv16, 18 Deu 20:16. Thou shalt save alive nothing — No…
Deu 20:16. Thou shalt save alive nothing — No human creature; for the beasts, some few excepted, were given for a prey. This slaughter of all the people is to be understood only in case they did not surrender when summoned, but rejected the conditions of peace when offered them. In which case their condition was worse than that of any other people, whose males only were to be slain, Deu 20:14.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv14, 16, 17 Excepting women, &c. These were supposed incapable of making…
Excepting women, &c. These were supposed incapable of making any resistance, or of carrying arms. Slaves also were excused, on account of their want of liberty to choose for themselves, and old men, unless the war was undertaken by their advice. "I am not accustomed to wage war with captives, nor with women," said Alexander. (Curtius 5.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv15–16 15. Cities… not of… these nations — The directions…
15. Cities… not of… these nations — The directions from Deu_20:10-15 are designed to apply to the nations with whom in the future wars may be waged. The nations of Canaan were to be utterly destroyed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv13–18 13. when the Lord thy God delivereth it] As…
13. when the Lord thy God delivereth it] As to this D has no doubt.
thou shalt smite, etc.] See on Deu_2:34.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv14, 16 Shalt eat the spoil; consume it for thine own…
Shalt eat the spoil; consume it for thine own maintenance.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v16 Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.
Deu_20:16-18
Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth.
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Extermination of Canaanites
Is not this fierce irruption in Canaan with fire and sword precisely similar to the wave of Mahomedan conquest? Is it any way different from the most pitiless of heathen invasions? How can we justify such an acquisition of territory as this, whilst we are, at least in theory, so scrupulous about adding one acre of unjustly acquired land to our dominions, and cannot let one drop of blood be shed, even in a conquered race, without inquiry? The key to this difficulty was given in the very first confirmation of the grant made to Abraham. When the land of Canaan was made over to him and his descendants, he was told that they could not at once enter on possession, because the iniquity of the Amorites was not full. The transference of territory was thus from the first viewed and treated as a judicial transaction. God reserves to Himself the right which all sovereigns must and do reserve--the right of removing offenders from the earth, and of confiscating their goods. In other respects this invasion finds a parallel in almost every century of history, and in every part of the world. It is, in point of fact, by conquest that civilisation has spread and is spreading upon earth, and in the career of progress the nations whose iniquities are full--that is to say, which have fallen too low for national redemption--have been swept away by the purer and stronger races. In this, therefore, there is no difference between the conduct of Israel and the conduct of other great nations. The difference consists in this--that while other nations have pushed their conquests for love of gain or glory, or through pride in their leader or mere lust of adventure, Israel entered Canaan as Gods servant, again and again warned that they were merely Gods sword of justice, and that if they forgot this, and began to think it was their own might that had emptied the land for them, they should themselves suffer the like extermination. Between this and many other outwardly similar conquests there was, in short, all the difference which there is between a righteous execution which rejoices the hearts of all good men, and a murder which makes us ashamed of our nature. (Marcus Dods, D. D.)
Unselfish conquest
The difference between the Jews and other people is precisely this:--All the great nations that we read of have effected extensive and, on the whole, salutary conquests. Their triumphs have been the means of spreading law, government, civilisation, where they would otherwise not have reached. They have swept away feeble, corrupt, sensualised people, who had become animal worshippers or devil worshippers, and had lost all sense of their human dignity. But we feel that the nations who have done these works have done them in great part for their own glory, for the increase of their territory, at the instigation and for the gratification of particular leaders. All higher and more blessed results of their success, which it is impossible not to recognise, have been stained and corrupted by the ignoble and selfish tendencies which have mixed with them, and been the motives to them; so that we are continually perplexed with the question, what judgment we shall form of them, or what different causes we can find for such opposite effects. There is one nation which is taught from the very first that it is not to go out to win any prizes for itself, to bring home the silver or gold, the sheep or the oxen, the men servants or the women servants; that it is to be simply the instrument of the righteous Lord against those who were polluting His earth, and making it unfit for human habitation. (F. D. Maurice, M. A.)
The command to extirpate the Canaanites
This command to extirpate the Canaanites is regarded by many as one of the chief difficulties in the Old Testament. The difficulty lies not so much in the thing itself, as in our defective views of God, or of mails relation to Him, or of the supernatural character of the revelation made to Moses. The objection, it will be observed, is grounded (or it has no force) upon the supposed inconsistency of this command with the Divine righteousness and equity. Yet there are other acts of God, equally terrible and equally indiscriminate in their effects, which we never presume to call in question. When, for example, the Almighty sends an earthquake or a pestilence, there is no complaint of injustice; and yet earthquake and pestilence spare neither age nor sex nor rank, but involve all in the same ruin. Do fire or famine or cholera discriminate between the sexes, or spare the aged or the young? If the sword of Israel was commissioned to destroy all that breathed of the Canaanites, it certainly was not more indiscriminate than these other judgments of God. If we dare not assert or even insinuate injustice in the case of the one, neither can we rationally do so in the case of the other; nor can we deny to the Almighty the right to choose this or that method of chastising a guilty people, whether earthquake or famine, pestilence or war. We may further remember that the annihilation of a people is so far from being a new or an unexampled occurrence, that similar events in the overruling wisdom of God have been continually taking place ever since the dawn of history. For an example of it we need not travel beyond our own shores. Where are the original inhabitants of England? The Briton was subdued by the Saxon, the Saxon was driven out by the Norman and the Dane, each race leaving, however, some trace of itself in the stock and blood of the country. Yet the original race has been more completely extirpated than ever the Canaanitish races were during the Hebrew occupancy of Palestine. Still more complete has been the disappearance of the North American Indians. The red man has been driven farther and farther towards the setting sun, till the race seems threatened with absolute extermination, and is actually extinct over an area twenty times as great as that of Palestine. It appears to be an unvarying law, that the savage recedes before the civilised man. We cannot justify all the means by which this result is accomplished, or palliate the dark and monstrous crimes which have been perpetrated in the name of civilisation; yet it is an evident fact that the Ruler of nations is pleased to ordain, or to permit, that nations should be driven from their ancestral inheritance, and their places filled by others. Thus we see that what happened to the Canaanites is happening continually in the history of nations. In this view the phenomenon of the destruction of the Canaanite nations does not stand alone. It can be referred to a class. And there is no more ground for disputing the Divine justice in regard to the destruction of those people than in regard to the disappearance of scores and perhaps hundreds of other ancient races from the face of the earth; for it cannot be contended that there is any difference, as it regards justice and equity, whether a nation be extirpated by war, destroyed by famine or pestilence, or left to perish, like the aborigines of Australia, by hopeless and helpless exhaustion. (L. H. Wiseman M. A.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv14, 16 the little ones
the little ones
"the children"
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all its spoil
"all the valuable things"
booty
These are the valuable things which people who win a battle take from the people they attacked.
all the cities
Here "cities" represents the people. AT: "all the people who live in cities" (See: Metonymy)
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cow
consume
nation
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v15 20:15 Places described as distant towns were outside the…
20:15 Places described as distant towns were outside the boundaries of the Promised Land.
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