Deuteronomy 13:15

destroying it utterly.

2:34; 7:2,16; Ex 22:20; 23:24; Le 27:28; Jos 6:17-21,24; Jud 20:48

Re 17:16; 18:18-24; 19:2,3

Joshua 7:24

took Achan.

1; Job 20:15; Pr 15:27; Ec 5:13; Eze 22:13,14; 1Ti 6:9,10

his sons.

6:18,21; Ge 18:25; Ex 20:5; Nu 16:27-31; Job 20:23-28

the valley.

26; 15:7; Isa 65:10; Ho 2:15

Judges 5:23

Curse ye.

1Sa 26:19; Jer 48:10; 1Co 16:22

Meroz.This city of Meroz seems to have been, at this time, a place of considerable importance, since something great was expected from it; but probably, after the angel of the Lord had pronounced this curse, it dwindled and like the fig-tree which Christ cursed, withered away; so that we never read of it after this in Scripture.

the angel.

2:1; 4:6; 6:11; 13:3; Mt 25:41

they came.

21:9,10; Ne 3:5

to the help.

1Sa 17:47; 18:17; 25:28; Ro 15:18; 1Co 3:9; 2Co 6:1

Judges 21:5

a great oath.

1,18; 5:23; Le 27:28,29; 1Sa 11:7; Jer 48:10

1 Samuel 11:7

he took.The sending the pieces of the oxen was an act similar to that of the Levite, Jud 19:29, where see the Note. An eminent Scotch writer describes the rites, incantations, and imprecations used prior to the fiery cross being circulated, to summon the rough warriors of ancient times to the service of their chief; and he alludes to this ancient custom, which in comparatively modern times, has been practised in Scotland; and proves that a similar punishment of death, or destruction of their houses, for disobeying the summons, was inflicted by the ancient Scandinavians, as recorded by Olaus Magnus, in his History of the Goths. This bears a striking similarity to the ancient custom of the Israelites. With the Highlanders, a goat was slain; with the Israelites, an ox. The exhibition of a cross, stained with the blood of the sacrificed animal, was the summons of the former, while part of the animal, was the mandate of the latter. Disobedience in one nation was punished with the death of themselves or oxen, and burning of their dwellings in the other.

hewed.

Jud 19:29

Whosoever.

Jud 21:5-11

the fear.

Ge 35:5; 2Ch 14:14; 17:10

with one consent. Heb. as one man.

Jud 20:1

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go.The Amalekites, a people of Arabia Petræa, who inhabited a tract of country on the frontiers of Egypt and Canaan, had acted with great cruelty towards the Israelites on their coming out of Egypt, and God then purposed that Amalek, as a nation, should be blotted out from under heaven; but it had been spared till it had filled up the measure of its iniquities, and now this purpose is carried into effect by Saul, upwards of 400 years afterwards! Nothing could justify such an exterminating decree but the absolute authority of God; and this was given: all the reasons of it we do not know; but this we know well, the Judge of all the earth doeth right.

utterly destroy.

Le 27:28,29; Nu 24:20; De 13:15,16; 20:16-18; Jos 6:17-21

slay.

Ex 20:5; Nu 31:17; Isa 14:21,22

ox and sheep.

Ge 3:17,18; Ro 8:20-22
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