Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain 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 Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which…
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee,.... As all such were reckoned that were without the land of Israel, even all in their neighbouring nations, the Moabites, Edomites, Ammonites, Syrians, &c. for the children of Israel never went to war with any very distant nations, unless they came unto them and invaded them; nor did they seek to carry their conquests to any great distance, when the most powerful and victorious, as in the days of David and Solomon:
which are not of the cities of these nations; of these seven nations, as the Targum of Jonathan, the seven nations of the land of Canaan; all that were not of them were accounted foreign cities, and at a distance.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 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 15. these nations] near or round Israel.
15. these nations] near or round Israel.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 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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