Judecătorii 1:25

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

El le -a arătat pe unde ar putea să intre în cetate. Şi au trecut cetatea prin ascuţişul săbiei; dar pe omul acela l-au lăsat să plece cu toată familia lui.

Bible Verse Review
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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.