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So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the South, the lowland, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no one remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded.
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Verse 40. Hills of Judea.—South of the promised land.—Plain. Hebrew Sephela, a flat country near Eleutheropolis. Saint Jerome in Abd. i. 19. 1 Mac. xii. 38.—Asedoth, “of the springs.”—Remains. God ordered these people to be utterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abominations; and that they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins. Challoner.
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