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You shall strike every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”
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Verse 19. Tree. This was an exception from the general law; (Deuteronomy 20:19. Calmet.) or it might only regard the land of Chanaan, which the Hebrews should occupy. Menochius. Worthington.—Stones, which had been gathered off into heaps. Isaiah 5:1. Persius calls a field thus cleared, Exossatus ager; ( Calmet.) as if the bones were taken out. Bible.
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