Deuteronomy 13:15-17
destroying it utterly.2:34; 7:2,16; Ex 22:20; 23:24; Le 27:28; Jos 6:17-21,24; Jud 20:48Re 17:16; 18:18-24; 19:2,3 burn with.Jos 6:24an heap.Nu 21:2,3; Jos 6:26; 8:28; Isa 17:1; 25:2; Jer 49:2; Mic 1:6 cleave.7:26; Jos 6:18; 7:1cursed. or, devoted.Le 27:28,29; 1Co 16:22the Lord.Jos 6:26; 7:26; 22:20; Ps 78:38and shew.Ex 20:6; La 3:32and multiply.Eze 37:26as he hath.Ge 22:16,17; 26:4,24; 28:142 Chronicles 25:13
soldiers of the army. Heb. sons of the band.9fell upon the cities.These Israelites seem to have returned home, when discharged by Amaziah, whose powerful army deterred them from attempting revenge at that time; but when he was engaged in war with the Edomites, they marched from Samaria, and plundered all the cities till they came to Beth-horon, where they slew 3,000 of the inhabitants. Samaria.1Ki 16:24,29Beth-horon.8:5; 1Ki 9:172 Chronicles 28:6-9
Pekah.2Ki 15:27,37; Isa 7:4,5,9; 9:21an hundred.13:17valiant men. Heb. sons of valour. because.15:2; De 6:14,15; 28:15,25; 29:24-26; 31:16,17; 32:20; Jos 23:16Jos 24:20; Isa 1:28; 24:5,6; Jer 2:19; 15:6 next to the king. Heb. the second to the king.Ge 41:43; 43:12,15; Es 10:3 carried.De 28:25,41brethren.11:4; Ac 7:26; 13:26 he went out.19:1,2; 25:15,16; 1Ki 20:13,22,42; 2Ki 20:14,15Behold.To this beautiful speech nothing can be added by the best comment: it is simple, humane, pious, and overwhelmingly convincing; and it is no wonder that it produced the effect here described. That there was much humanity, as well as firmness, in the heads of the children of Ephraim, who joined with the prophet of Jehovah on this occasion, their subsequent conduct, as detailed in the fifteenth verse, sufficiently proves. They did not barely dismiss these most unfortunate captives, but they took that very spoil which their victorious army had taken, and with clothed, shod, fed, and anointed these distressed people, set the feeblest of them upon asses, and escorted them safely to Jericho! We can scarcely find a parallel to this in the universal history of the wars which savage man has carried on against his fellows from the foundation of the world. The compliance also of the whole army, in leaving both the captives and spoil to the disposal of the princes, was really wonderful, and perhaps unparalleled in history. Both the princes and army are worthy to be held up to the admiration and imitation of mankind. because the Lord God.5; Jud 3:8; Ps 69:26; Isa 10:5-7; 47:6; Jer 15:17,18; Eze 25:12-17Eze 26:2,3; Ob 1:10-16; Zec 1:15reacheth.Ge 4:10; 11:4; Ezr 9:6; Re 18:5Proverbs 18:19
brother.6:19; Ge 4:5-8; 27:41-45; 32:6-11; 37:3-5,11,18-27; 2Sa 13:22,281Ki 2:23-25; 12:16; 2Ch 13:17; Ac 15:39than.16:32
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