Verse 15<\/span>. Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants<\/B><\/I>] If one city were permitted to practise idolatry, the evil would soon spread, therefore the contagion must be destroyed in its birth.<\/P><\/p>\n The inhabitants of that city, <\/B>to wit, all that are guilty, not the innocent part, such as disowned this apostacy, who doubtless by choice and interest, at least upon warning, would come out of so wicked and cursed a place. <\/P> Destroying it utterly; <\/B>the very same punishment which was inflicted upon the cities of the cursed Canaanites, to whom having made themselves equal in sin, it is but fit and just that God should equal them in punishment. <\/P> <\/p>\n 12-18. Certain men, the children ofBelial<\/B>lawless, designing demagogues (Jdg 19:22<\/span>;1Sa 1:16<\/span>; 1Sa 25:25<\/span>),who abused their influence to withdraw the inhabitants of the city toidol-worship.<\/P><\/p>\n Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword<\/strong>,…. This could not be the work of a single person, nor of the whole sanhedrim, but was what the whole nation was to join in, according to the above note:<\/p>\n destroying it utterly<\/strong>; pulling down the houses, and demolishing its walls and fortifications, or burning it, as afterwards explained:<\/p>\n and all that is therein<\/strong>; men, women, and children:<\/p>\n and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword<\/strong>; this severity was used to show the Lord’s indignation against the sin of idolatry, and to deter persons from it, both individuals and bodies of men.<\/p>\n Upon this report the people as a whole, of course through their rulers, were to examine closely into the affair ( , an adverb, as in Deu 9:21<\/span>), whether the word was established as truth, i.e., the thing was founded in truth (cf. Deu 17:4<\/span>; Deu 22:20<\/span>); and if it really were so, they were to smite the inhabitants of that town with the edge of the sword (cf. Gen 34:26<\/span>), putting the town and all that was in it under the ban. “ All that is in it<\/em> ” relates to men, cattle, and the material property of the town, and not to men alone ( Schultz<\/em>). The clause from “destroying” to “therein” is a more minute definition of the punishment introduced as a parenthesis; for “the cattle thereof,” which follows, is also governed by “thou shalt smite.” The ban was to be executed in all its severity as upon an idolatrous city: man and beast were to be put to death without reserves; and its booty, i.e., whatever was to be found in it as booty-all material goods, therefore – were to be heaped together in the market, and burned along with the city itself. ( Eng. Ver<\/em>. “every whit, for the Lord thy God”) signifies “ as a whole offering for the Lord<\/em> ” (see Lev 6:15-16<\/span>), i.e., it was to be sanctified to Him entirely by being destroyed. The town was to continue an eternal hill (or heap of ruins), never to be built up again.<\/p>\n 15 Thou shalt surely smite. Lest the severity of the punishment should occasion surprise, let us first observe that the error was unpardonable, because its authors, being educated in the doctrines of the Law, could not be deceived involuntarily, nor unless they had grown weary of religion, and set their hearts on the impostures of the devil. On this account God, in the Book of Jeremiah, in order to inveigh more heavily against the inconstancy of the Jews, refers them to distant isles and nations: “Passover (He says) and consider,” etc., “Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, ” etc. (Jer 2:10<\/span>.) For justly must their instability be accounted monstrous, that they should have voluntarily forsaken the fountain of life, and have been carried away to vanity by their preposterous love of novelty. If any should object that the little children at least were innocent, I reply that, since all are condemned by the judgment of God from the least to the greatest, we contend against Him in vain, even though He should destroy the very infants as yet in their mothers’ womb. When Sodom and the neighboring cities were swallowed up, we doubt not but that in the mighty multitude many infants and pregnant women also perished; and whilst our reason struggles against this, it is better rather to look up reverently to the Divine tribunal, than to subject it to our own laws. The same may be said of the destruction of Babylon; for when the Prophet exclaims: “Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones,” he assuredly eulogizes the just vengeance of God. (Psa 137:9<\/span>.) So also in this passage, if it does not appear to us agreeable to reason that the whole race of evil-doers should be exterminated, let us understand that God is defrauded of His rights, whensoever we measure His infinite greatness, which the angels themselves admiringly adore, by our own feelings. Although we must recollect that God would never have suffered any infants to be destroyed, except those which He had already reprobated and condemned to eternal death. But if we admit God’s right to deprive of the hope of salvation whomsoever He sees fit, why should the temporal punishment, which is much lighter, be found fault with? Rather let us learn from the severity of this Law, how detestable is the crime of setting up false and spurious modes of worship, since it contaminates not only the infants, whose age prevents them from being conscious of it, (63) but even the cattle and flocks, and the very houses and walls. For he proceeds immediately afterwards to say, <\/p>\n (63) “ Lesquels n’en sont point coulpables.” — Fr. <\/p>\n (15) And the cattle thereof.<\/strong>So in Jdg. 20:48<\/span> : The men of every city, the beast, <\/em>and all that were found.<\/p>\n destroying = exterminating. Hebrew. haram. <\/p>\n edge. Hebrew “mouth”. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for edge. <\/p>\n destroying it utterly: Deu 2:34, Deu 7:2, Deu 7:16, Exo 22:20, Exo 23:24, Lev 27:28, Jos 6:17-21, Jos 6:24, Jdg 20:48, Rev 17:16, Rev 18:18-24, Rev 19:2, Rev 19:3 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Num 21:2 – I will Num 25:4 – and hang Num 25:5 – Slay ye Jos 7:15 – he that is Jos 22:12 – the whole Jdg 21:10 – Go and smite 1Sa 15:3 – utterly destroy Psa 106:30 – General<\/p>\n Deu 13:15. The inhabitants Namely, all that were guilty, not the innocent part, such as disowned this apostacy, who doubtless by choice, at least upon warning, would come out of so wicked a place. Utterly The very same punishment which was inflicted upon the cities of the cursed Canaanites, to whom, having made themselves equal in sin, it was but just God should equal them in punishment.<\/p>\n Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. Verse 15. 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