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The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
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Verse 17. An anathema. That is, a thing accursed and devoted to utter destruction. Challoner.—Only the metal that was found, was consecrated to the Lord, (verse 19,) and the family of Rahab saved. In devoting things, the person who laid on the curse, might extend its operation as he pleased. On some occasions, all was to be destroyed; on others, some things were preserved. Deuteronomy 2:34. Leviticus 27:21. Calmet.—This first city, which the Israelites attacked, was treated with peculiar severity, to terrify the rest.
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