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พระบัญญัติ 13:17
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
cleave: Deuteronomy 7:26, Joshua 6:18, Joshua 7:1
cursed: or, devoted, Leviticus 27:28, Leviticus 27:29, 1 Corinthians 16:22
the Lord: Joshua 6:26, Joshua 7:26, Joshua 22:20, Psalms 78:38
and show: Exodus 20:6, Lamentations 3:32
and multiply: Ezekiel 37:26
as he hath: Genesis 22:16, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 26:4, Genesis 26:24, Genesis 28:14
Reciprocal: Exodus 32:12 - Turn from Leviticus 27:21 - devoted Numbers 16:26 - I pray you Numbers 25:4 - that the fierce Deuteronomy 28:9 - sworn 1 Chronicles 2:7 - accursed Ezra 10:14 - the fierce Psalms 85:3 - turned Psalms 101:3 - it shall not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand,.... That is, they might not take anything whatever to their own use; for all being devoted to destruction, was cursed, and brought a curse upon the man that should make it his own property, as Achan did, when Jericho was destroyed:
that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger; stirred up by the idolatry of the city:
and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee; who, seeing wrath gone forth, might dread the consequences, lest it should spread itself further:
and multiply thee, as he hath sworn to thy fathers; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; this is observed to encourage them to execute his orders punctually in the destruction of the idolatrous city; since God could and would multiply them, as he had promised their fathers, with an oath, so that they should not be the fewer by such an instance of his severity.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 13:17. And there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing — As God did not permit them to take the spoils of these idolatrous cities, they could be under no temptation to make war upon them. It could only be done through a merely religious motive, in obedience to the command of God, as they could have no profit by the subversion of such places. How few religious wars would there ever have been in the world had they been regulated by this principle: "Thou shalt neither extend thy territory, nor take any spoils!"
