the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Chinese Union (Simplified)
士å¸è®° 1:25
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那人把進城的路指示了他們,他們就用刀擊殺了那城的居民,卻把那人和他的全家都放走。
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
they smote: Joshua 6:22-25
Reciprocal: Joshua 2:14 - when the Lord Joshua 6:25 - Rahab Judges 8:14 - caught 1 Samuel 30:16 - when he Psalms 60:9 - Who
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when he showed them the entrance, into the city,.... Pointing to it with his fingers, as the same writers observe:
they smote the city with the edge of the sword; they gave notice of what intelligence they had got to the body of the army, who came up, entered the city, took it, and put the inhabitants of it to the sword, as they were ordered to do with all the Canaanites:
but they let go the man and all his family; who had returned to it, encouraged by the promise made him, and for the sake of saving of his family; which though not expressed, he might have asked the favour of sparing them, which might be promised, as was in the case of Rahab; provided he would either renounce Heathenism, and embrace the true religion, or depart to another country, the latter of which he chose.