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The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.
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Verse 48. And villages, is not expressed in Hebrew and so forth But as both cities, and all the inhabitants were destroyed, the villages would share the same fate, ( Bible.) as being under a curse. The Israelites concluded, from the exemplary vengeance which had been taken of Sodom and Gomorra, that they were authorized to treat their brethren in guilt with the utmost severity. Calmet.
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