Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again—Its ruins shall be a permanent monument of the divine justice, and a beacon for the warning and terror of posterity.
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 13:16:
Deuteronomy 13:6
Ezekiel 16:38-40
Ezekiel 16:41
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