Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
there shall cleave naught of the cursed thing to thine hand—No spoil shall be taken from a city thus solemnly devoted to destruction. Every living creature must be put to the sword—everything belonging to it reduced to ashes—that nothing but its infamy may remain.
Certain men, the children of Belial—lawless, designing demagogues (Judges 19:22; I Samuel 1:16; I Samuel 25:25), who abused their influence to withdraw the inhabitants of the city to idol-worship.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Deuteronomy 13:17:
Deuteronomy 13:6
Joshua 6:18
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